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Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc. 2020 Jun 02;29:100547. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcha.2020.100547. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Left Ventricular Sphericity Index is a reproducible bedside echocardiographic measure of geometric change between acute phase Takotsubo's syndrome and acute anterior myocardial infarction.

International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature

Shaun Khanna, Aditya Bhat, Henry H Chen, Jeremy W A Tan, Gary C H Gan, Timothy C Tan

Affiliations

  1. Department of Cardiology, Blacktown Hospital, Blacktown Road, Blacktown, NSW 2148, Australia.
  2. University of New South Wales, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
  3. Western Sydney University, Faculty of Medicine, Blacktown 2148, NSW, Australia.

PMID: 32514426 PMCID: PMC7267721 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcha.2020.100547

Abstract

•TS and AMI are separate cardiac conditions with similar clinical presentations.•TS have a higher LVSI than AMI, indicating a more spherical left ventricle.•LVSI may be utilised acutely to assist differentiation of acute phase TS and AMI.

© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Keywords: Myocardial infarction; Sphericity index; Takotsubo’s syndrome

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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