Stress (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy

Stress cardiomyopathy, also referred to as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is an increasingly recognized clinical syndrome characterized by acute reversible apical ventricular dysfunction.This condition is only recently and more than 300 articles have been written mostly in the last 5 years.

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In this article authors review the clinical syndrome and suggest a novel pathophysiological explanation that focuses on the direct effects of high epinephrine levels on the ventricular myocardium.

The syndrome represents a form of epinephrine-mediated acute myocardial stunning, with a predilection for the apical myocardium.

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