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Case Reports
. 2007 Apr;24(4):329-34.
doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00399.x.

Mid-ventricular ballooning heart syndrome

Jean Marc Aubert  1 , Pierre Vladimir Ennezat, Olivier Tricot, Julie Darchis, Jean Jacques Bauchart, Jean Luc Auffray, Martine Lesenne, Eric Van Belle, Patrick Goldstein, Philippe Asseman
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Case Reports

Mid-ventricular ballooning heart syndrome

Jean Marc Aubert et al. Echocardiography. 2007 Apr.

Abstract

Stress cardiomyopathies have been increasingly reported these last years, especially in women as a transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome. We report six cases in whom, in the context of anxious situations, echocardiograms and ventriculographies revealed mid-ventricular akinesis with preservation of apical and basal contractilities with normal coronary arteriography. This "mid-ventricular ballooning heart syndrome " should probably be classified as a new type of heart stress related syndrome.

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