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Stress-related cardiomyopathy syndromes.
The relationship between the heart and the brain is complex and integral in the maintenance of normal cardiovascular function. Certain pathological conditions can interfere with the normal brain-heart regulatory mechanisms and result in impaired cardiovascular function. The mechanisms through which the central and autonomic nervous systems regulate the heart and the manner in which their impair...
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BACKGROUND Due to the rise in the number of reports of stress cardiomyopathy in the literature, awareness of this condition is increasing. Although different names have been used to describe this condition, the similarities in clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and angiographic features suggest that they represent the same spectrum of diseases with different underlying causes. T...
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Stress cardiomyopathy—apical ballooning, tako-tsubo syndrome, or transient apical dyskinesia—is an intriguing condition of unknown etiology. It typically affects older women who, after an event causing physical or emotional stress, present chest pain and ST elevation on the anterior aspect of the ECG (although it may also show T-wave inversion, depressed ST, or normal findings). At presentation...
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Recent descriptions of discontinuation syndromes following treatment with antidepressants and antipsychotics, in some cases long lasting, challenge both public and scientific models of addiction and drug dependence. Antipsychotic and antidepressant drug dependencies point to a need to identify predisposing constitutional and personality factors in the patient, pharmacological risk factors in th...
متن کاملTakotsubo or Stress Cardiomyopathy
Many case reports have been published of reversible left ventricular dysfunction precipitated by sudden emotional stress. We have evaluated 10 women hospitalized for acute chest pain and dyspnea, mimicking an acute coronary syndrome, after a severe emotional trigger. Those patients, postmenopausal women, presented ST segment alterations on the EKG, minor elevations of cardiac enzymes, and bioma...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.106.677625