TakoTsubo syndrome and emotional stress: a heuristic approach.
While acute and reversible coronary syndrome without anatomical damage, called TakoTsubo syndrome, has been repeatedly associated with emotional stress, the specific categories of stressors have been ill-defined. Following a review of variously described emotional stressors associated with that specific cardiomyopathy, a clinical report is presented to raise two issues: the overlap of biological risk factors with emotional stress and the interplay of acute and subacute emotional stressors.
Sirois
François
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Laval University, Quebec City, Que, Canada G1V 4G5. sirois.rondeau@sympatico.ca
D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology