TakoTsubo syndrome and emotional stress: a heuristic approach

General Hospital Psychiatry
François Sirois

Abstract

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.

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Apr 16, 2013·Case Reports in Orthopedics·John Weaver, Jason Eubanks
Sep 8, 2012·La Presse médicale·François Sirois
Oct 29, 2011·L'Encéphale·V MarechalH Droulin
Jun 26, 2014·International Journal of Legal Medicine·Martin GriebeKristina Szabo

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