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SUBMITTER: Perera I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7150708 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perera Irushna I Rajapakse Sanjeewa S De Silva Shamila T ST
Case reports in cardiology 20200331
Takotsubo or stress cardiomyopathy is a non ischemic disease affecting the myocardium, which presents with typical features of myocardial ischemia. Although the presentation with acute central chest pain and shortness of breath mimics acute myocardial ischemia, there is an absence of actual disruption of cardiac blood supply via the coronaries due to acute plaque rupture or vascular spasm. The underlying pathophysiology of this clinical entity remains largely unclear, but a definite association ...[more]