Apical ballooning syndrome, emotional stress and women
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Stress Cardiomyopathy: A Case of Apical Ballooning Syndrome followed by Mid-ventricular Ballooning Syndrome as Recurrence
Stress cardiomyopathy has an association with emotional or physical stressors and is found to be more common in postmenopausal women. It has a similar presentation as acute myocardial infarction. Involvement of apex at the initial presentation and recurrence at the mid ventricular segment is rare. We describe a case of a 46 year old female with apical involvement at the initial presentation but...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0195-668X,1522-9645
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl346