Open AccessCharacteristics of coronary microcirculatory function in patients with Takotsubo syndrome
Author(s) -
Giuseppiovo,
Angelo Quagliana,
Dario Buccheri,
Salvatore Rizzo,
Salvatore Giambanco,
Francesco Giambanco,
Salvatore Evola,
Giovanna Geraci,
Salvatore Novo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.93
Subject(s) - medicine , takotsubo syndrome , cardiology , acute coronary syndrome , myocardial infarction , cardiomyopathy , heart failure
Takotsubo syndrome (TS) is a recently described cardiac syndrome whose pathogenesis is still unclear. We investigated the characteristics of coronary microcirculatory function in patients with TS through the analysis of the TIMI frame count (TFC) compared to normal subjects and with to subjects with microvascular angina (MA).