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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(1):78-79; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.01.002
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Assessment of coronary flow reserve by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography in left apical ballooning syndrome

Patrick Meimoun1,*, Dorothée Malaquin1, Tahar Benali1 and Christophe Tribouilloy2

1 Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care Unit, Compiègne Hospital, Compiègne, France
2 Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Amiens, France

Received 21 October 2006; accepted after revision 6 January 2007; online publish-ahead-of-print 28 February 2007.

* Corresponding author. Service de Cardiologie et Soins Intensifs, Centre Hospitalier de Compiègne, 8 rue Henri Adnot, 60200 Compiègne, France. Tel: +33 3 44 23 62 39; fax: +33 3 44 23 62 38. E-mail address: patrickmeimoun{at}free.fr


  Abstract

We present the time course of transthoracic coronary flow reserve in the left anterior descending artery in a patient who suffered a transient left apical ballooning syndrome.

Keywords: Left apical ballooning syndrome; Tako-tsubo; Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography; Coronary flow reserve


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