title: [Cardiologic emergencies and natural disaster. Prospective study with Xynthia tempest].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Stress-induced cardiomyopathy and ischemic cardiopathy have been described after natural disasters such as earthquakes.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Count stress-induced cardiomyopathies and ischemic cardiopathies just after Xynthia tempest which damaged the Vendean coast on February2010, in order to study epidemiology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Included patients were living in a tempest damaged village, and admitted in Vendee hospital just after or in the week following the tempest, and presenting a suspected acute coronary syndrome or stress-induced cardiomyopathy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 3350 inhabitants of the two damaged Vendean towns, we count three acute coronary syndromes, two Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathies, and one coronary spasm. We count five women and one man, average age is 76.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The diagnosis of ischemic cardiopathy and stress-induced cardiomyopathy is over-represented in this tempest damaged population, that have been little described.
authors.affiliation: SAMU-SMUR-Urgences, CHD Vendée, La Roche-Sur-Yon, France. eve.trebouet@chd-vendee.fr
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Trebouet
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lipp
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dimet
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orion
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fradin
mesh_terms: D054058:Acute Coronary Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004190:Disasters; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000453:epidemiology*