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21401402

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SIC) is a novel syndrome with a substantial morbidity and mortality rate. It has become an important differential diagnosis in patients with acute chest pain. The characteristic hallmark of SIC is a development of extensive but reversible left ventricular dysfunction which may cause fulminant heart failure, cardiogenic shock and literally heart rupture leading to death. In spite of the rapidly increasing number of patients, a lot of elementary facts are unknown in regard to epidemiology, pathophysiology, prognosis and optimal treatment. Substantial evidence has been accumulated in the literature during the last couple of years that renders the SIC diagnostic criteria proposed from Mayo Clinic obsolete. In this paper we offer a new set of clinical criteria which we believe better defines the SIC syndrome. Based on the data from the newly established national SIC registry in Sweden, we estimate that as many as 1500-2000 patients annually develop the advanced stage of SIC in our country. It is plausible to assume that the true incidence of SIC is generally much higher if we accept the fact that subclinical and milder forms of SIC in the population do not come to medical attention and that SIC is often mistaken for an acute coronary syndrome. SIC may therefore be the most common form of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy in Sweden and elsewhere.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1651-2006
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-71
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
How to think about stress-induced cardiomyopathy?--Think "out of the box"!
pubmed:publicationType
Editorial, Comment