Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: ten year experience at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan.

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Published in BMC Res Notes on December 19, 2014

Authors

Abid Hussain Laghari1, Aamir Hameed Khan, Khawar Abbas Kazmi

Author Affiliations

1: Senior Instructor, Cardiology section, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. drabidlaghari@yahoo.com.

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