Myocardial edema as a substrate of electrocardiographic abnormalities and life-threatening arrhythmias in reversible ventricular dysfunction of takotsubo cardiomyopathy: Imaging evidence, presumed mechanisms, and implications for therapy.
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.
Federico
F
Migliore
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.
Alessandro
A
Zorzi
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.
Martina
M
Perazzolo Marra
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.
Sabino
S
Iliceto
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy. Electronic address: domenico.corrado@unipd.it.
Domenico
D
Corrado
D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004487:Edema / Q000473:pathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018754:Ventricular Dysfunction / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology
Apical ballooning; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Myocardial edema; Stress cardiomyopathy; T wave