Takotsubo cardiomyopathy vs acute myocardial infarction: diagnostic utility of subtle ECG differences

The clinical findings of Takatsubo Cardiomyopathy and acute myocardial infarction can be very similar. While Takatsubo cardiomyopathy rarely leads to severe complications, acute myocardial infarction can be life threatening. Treatment of both these conditions is different and so it is imperative for...

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Autores principales: Syed, Asma Saba, Khalid, Umair
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Letter to the Editors
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-17
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description The clinical findings of Takatsubo Cardiomyopathy and acute myocardial infarction can be very similar. While Takatsubo cardiomyopathy rarely leads to severe complications, acute myocardial infarction can be life threatening. Treatment of both these conditions is different and so it is imperative for clinicians to have a high index of suspicion for either. Several EKG differences between the two entities have been proposed. This article summarizes the EKG changes most likely seen in Takatsubo cardiomyopathy and compares them to those seen in Acute Myocardial infarction.
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spelling pubmed-30943602011-05-16 Takotsubo cardiomyopathy vs acute myocardial infarction: diagnostic utility of subtle ECG differences Syed, Asma Saba Khalid, Umair Int J Emerg Med Letter to the Editors The clinical findings of Takatsubo Cardiomyopathy and acute myocardial infarction can be very similar. While Takatsubo cardiomyopathy rarely leads to severe complications, acute myocardial infarction can be life threatening. Treatment of both these conditions is different and so it is imperative for clinicians to have a high index of suspicion for either. Several EKG differences between the two entities have been proposed. This article summarizes the EKG changes most likely seen in Takatsubo cardiomyopathy and compares them to those seen in Acute Myocardial infarction. Springer 2011-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3094360/ /pubmed/21584208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-17 Text en Copyright ©2011 Syed and Khalid; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Takotsubo cardiomyopathy vs acute myocardial infarction: diagnostic utility of subtle ECG differences
title_fullStr Takotsubo cardiomyopathy vs acute myocardial infarction: diagnostic utility of subtle ECG differences
title_full_unstemmed Takotsubo cardiomyopathy vs acute myocardial infarction: diagnostic utility of subtle ECG differences
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title_sort takotsubo cardiomyopathy vs acute myocardial infarction: diagnostic utility of subtle ecg differences
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094360/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-17
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