Mechanisms of Myocardial Stunning in Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Stress-induced cardiomyopathy, in contrast to acute myocardial infarction, is a type of acute heart failure characterized by reversible left ventricular dysfunction. Cardiac imaging primarily reveals left ventricle myocardial stunning, 81.7% of which is apical type. Emotional or psychological stress usually precedes the onset of stress-induced cardiomyopathy, which is increasingly being recognized as a unique neurogenic myocardial stunning disease. To distinguish between acute myocardial infarction and acute viral or auto-immune myocarditis, this article summarizes specific mechanisms of myocardial stunning in stress-induced cardiomyopathy, such as calcium disorders, metabolic alterations, anatomical and histological variations in different parts of the left ventricle, and microvascular dysfunction.

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Article reference: Mechanisms of Myocardial Stunning in Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy, Yin, Dechun, Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, 2022, https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2022.0010