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7399504

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1980-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
In order to clarify the relationship between stress and sudden death, we reviewed homicidal assaults that occurred in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (metropolitan Cleveland), over the preceding 30 years. Specifically, attention was focused on the autopsy and investigative findings relating to victims who died as a direct result of physical assault without sustaining internal injuries. Fifteen such victims were identified, and 11 of them showed cardiac changes (myofibrillar degeneration) consistent with "stress cardiomyopathy," comparable to lesions described in stressed animal experiments. Age matched and cardiac disease matched control subjects showed little or no evidence of such changes. Two victims survived for a time in the hospital, suffered arrhythmias throughout the hospital course, and had the described cardiac lesions at autopsy. We interpret our data as being strongly supportive of the theory of catecholamine mediation of these myocardial changes in man and of the lethal potential of stress through its effect on the heart.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0046-8177
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
123-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Human stress cardiomyopathy. Myocardial lesions in victims of homicidal assaults without internal injuries.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article