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Emotional stress as a trigger of myasthenic crisis and concomitant takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Myasthenia gravis is a neuromuscular junction post-synaptic autoimmune disorder. Myasthenic crisis is characterized by respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a rare clinical syndrome defined as a profound but reversible left ventricular dysfun...

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Autores principales: Beydoun, Said R, Wang, JingTian, Levine, Reed Loring, Farvid, Ali
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21129175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-393