STRESS CARDIOMYOPATHY: A REVIEW OF THE PROBLEM AND CLINICAL CASE

Abstract

This article presents up - to - date information about the etiopathogenesis, manifestations and diagnostic features characteristic of stress cardiomyopathy. There is also provided the most common clinical situations with recommendations for prescribing medication. A clinical case of examination and treatment of a patient was demonstrated as a practical example of the differential diagnosis of takotsubo syndrome. In the case described patient had a classic picture of clinical and electrocardiographic manifestations of this disease in combination with rapidly reversible echocardiographic and ventriculographic disorders of the structure and contractility of the left ventricular myocardium, unexpressed changes in laboratory data.