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Stress cardiomyopathy is real and affects a broad range of elderly patients. |
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EurekAlert: "Stress cardiomyopathy was accurately identified by CMR using specific criteria: a typical pattern of LV dysfunction, myocardial edema [swelling], absence of significant necrosis [cell or tissue death]/fibrosis [formation of excess fibrous connective tissue], and markers for myocardial inflammation. Follow-up CMR imaging showed complete normalization of LV ejection fraction [a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction] and inflammatory markers in the absence of significant fibrosis in all patients," the authors write.
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