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Cardiac Stress Test Induced by Dobutamine and Monitored by Cardiac Catheterization in Mice
Published on: February 10, 2013
[Stress cardiomyopathy: report of 2 cases]
A Aliouche1, C Pop, L Chapoutot
1Service de cardiologie, CH de Saint-Dizier, 4, avenue Godard Jeanson, 52100 St-Dizier, France.
Abstract:
The authors reported two cases of acute catecholamines cardiomyopathy expressed clinically by chest pain and dyspnea, without any previous cardiac history. The diagnosis of human stress cardiomyopathy is established on: typically rapid onset aftermath of intense emotional stress, left ventricular apical akinesis and hyperkinetic motion of basal walls imaged by two-dimensional echocardiography. Rapid reversal clinical course and normal coronary arteriography. Similar finding have been observed in conjunction with pheochromocytoma who have been excluded by normal levels of urinary catecholamines metabolites.
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