Simplified echocardiographic assessment of regional left ventricular wall motion pattern in patients with takotsubo and acute coronary syndrome: The randomized blinded Two-chamber Apical Kinesis Observation (TAKO) study.
Taha AhmedAnthony A ManginoSamra Haroon LodhiVedant GuptaSteve W LeungVincent L SorrellPublished in: Current problems in cardiology (2024)
We propose a relatively simple 2-D TTE diagnostic tool emphasizing subtle differences in the RWMA pattern in the A2C view alone as a semi-quantitative imaging parameter to help differentiate TTC from LAD-ACS.
Keyphrases
- acute coronary syndrome
- left ventricular
- high resolution
- placebo controlled
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- mitral valve
- double blind
- antiplatelet therapy
- heart failure
- left atrial
- open label
- acute myocardial infarction
- pulmonary hypertension
- randomized controlled trial
- clinical trial
- aortic stenosis
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- phase ii
- study protocol
- coronary artery disease
- ejection fraction
- mass spectrometry
- aortic valve
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- high speed