PMID- 25465858
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160222
LR  - 20141231
IS  - 1532-8430 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-0736 (Linking)
VI  - 48
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Jan-Feb
TI  - Acute electrocardiographic differences between Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and 
      anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction.
PG  - 79-85
LID - S0022-0736(14)00440-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2014.11.001 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to compare ECG findings between anterior ST 
      elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) in a 
      similar sample of postmenopausal women. METHODS: Between 2008 and 2011, 27 
      patients with TC were retrospectively enrolled and matched with 27 STEMI patients 
      with the same age and sex taken from the prospective database of our laboratory. 
      RESULTS: The absence of abnormal Q waves, the ST depression in aVR and the lack 
      of ST elevation in V1 were significantly associated with TC (respectively: 52% vs 
      18%, p=0.01; 47% vs 11%, p=0.01; 80% vs 41%, p=0.01). The combination of these 
      ECG findings identified TC with a specificity of 95% and a positive predictive 
      value of 85.7%. CONCLUSIONS: The ECG on admission may be useful to distinguish TC 
      from anterior STEMI. The combination of three ECG findings identifies patients 
      with TC with high specificity and positive predictive value.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Mugnai, Giacomo
AU  - Mugnai G
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy. Electronic 
      address: mugnai.giacomo@gmail.com.
FAU - Pasqualin, Giulia
AU  - Pasqualin G
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy.
FAU - Benfari, Giovanni
AU  - Benfari G
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy.
FAU - Bertagnolli, Livio
AU  - Bertagnolli L
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy.
FAU - Mugnai, Francesca
AU  - Mugnai F
AD  - Medicine and Surgery, University of Siena, Siena Italy.
FAU - Vassanelli, Francesca
AU  - Vassanelli F
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy.
FAU - Marchese, Giuseppe
AU  - Marchese G
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy.
FAU - Pesarini, Gabriele
AU  - Pesarini G
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy.
FAU - Menegatti, Giuliana
AU  - Menegatti G
AD  - Division of Cardiology, University Hospital of Verona, Verona Italy.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20141108
PL  - United States
TA  - J Electrocardiol
JT  - Journal of electrocardiology
JID - 0153605
SB  - IM
CIN - J Electrocardiol. 2015 Mar-Apr;48(2):275-6. PMID: 25582676
MH  - Diagnosis, Differential
MH  - Electrocardiography/*methods
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Myocardial Infarction/*diagnosis
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy/*diagnosis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Anterior STEMI
OT  - ECG
OT  - Myocardial infarction
OT  - Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
EDAT- 2014/12/04 06:00
MHDA- 2016/02/24 06:00
CRDT- 2014/12/04 06:00
PHST- 2014/08/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/12/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/12/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/02/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0022-0736(14)00440-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2014.11.001 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Electrocardiol. 2015 Jan-Feb;48(1):79-85. doi: 
      10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2014.11.001. Epub 2014 Nov 8.