Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women

Myocardial infarction with nonobstructed coronary arteries (MINOCA) can be triggered by intense emotions. We report 5 cases of emotional stress–related death where forensic examination attributed myocardial infarction to a coronary spasm, with the ultimate cause of death being arrhythmias in 4 cases...

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Autores principales: Aimo, Alberto, Di Paolo, Marco, Castiglione, Vincenzo, Modena, Martina, Barison, Andrea, Benvenuti, Matteo, Bugelli, Valentina, Campobasso, Carlo Pietro, Guidi, Benedetta, Camici, Paolo G., Emdin, Michele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Mini-Focus Issue: Interventions
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.08.010
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author Aimo, Alberto
Di Paolo, Marco
Castiglione, Vincenzo
Modena, Martina
Barison, Andrea
Benvenuti, Matteo
Bugelli, Valentina
Campobasso, Carlo Pietro
Guidi, Benedetta
Camici, Paolo G.
Emdin, Michele
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description Myocardial infarction with nonobstructed coronary arteries (MINOCA) can be triggered by intense emotions. We report 5 cases of emotional stress–related death where forensic examination attributed myocardial infarction to a coronary spasm, with the ultimate cause of death being arrhythmias in 4 cases and cardiac rupture in the fifth. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
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spelling pubmed-83045312021-07-26 Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women Aimo, Alberto Di Paolo, Marco Castiglione, Vincenzo Modena, Martina Barison, Andrea Benvenuti, Matteo Bugelli, Valentina Campobasso, Carlo Pietro Guidi, Benedetta Camici, Paolo G. Emdin, Michele JACC Case Rep Mini-Focus Issue: Interventions Myocardial infarction with nonobstructed coronary arteries (MINOCA) can be triggered by intense emotions. We report 5 cases of emotional stress–related death where forensic examination attributed myocardial infarction to a coronary spasm, with the ultimate cause of death being arrhythmias in 4 cases and cardiac rupture in the fifth. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.) Elsevier 2020-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8304531/ /pubmed/34317180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.08.010 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Aimo, Alberto
Di Paolo, Marco
Castiglione, Vincenzo
Modena, Martina
Barison, Andrea
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Bugelli, Valentina
Campobasso, Carlo Pietro
Guidi, Benedetta
Camici, Paolo G.
Emdin, Michele
Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women
title Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women
title_full Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women
title_fullStr Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women
title_full_unstemmed Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women
title_short Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women
title_sort scared to death: emotional stress causing fatal myocardial infarction with nonobstructed coronary arteries in women
topic Mini-Focus Issue: Interventions
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.08.010
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