Cardiomyopathie de stress
Mehras Motamed, Jairo Tavares Nunes, Jacob Allen Udell · 2024
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Motamed, Tavares Nunes, and Udell wrote a clinical review, published in 2024 and written in French, on stress cardiomyopathy. In this condition, a sudden stress weakens the heart muscle for a time, then it recovers. It grows more common with age and strikes mostly women after menopause. Triggers include physical shocks like acute breathing failure, and emotional ones like grief or anxiety. About a third of patients show no clear trigger at all.
The symptoms mimic a heart attack: chest pain, breathlessness, and fainting. Yet the heart's arteries are not blocked, which places the condition in a tricky diagnostic family. A torn coronary artery is one look-alike doctors must rule out. In about 5 to 12 percent of cases, the weakened heart fails to pump enough and shock follows. The review covers how to spot the condition, confirm it, and support patients through the recovery phase.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mehras Motamed, Jairo Tavares Nunes, Jacob Allen Udell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |