Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 18-1986. A 44-year-old woman with substernal pain and pulmonary edema after severe emotional stress

N Engl J Med. 1986 May 8;314(19):1240-7. doi: 10.1056/NEJM198605083141908.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Catecholamines / blood
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Life Change Events
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis
  • Myocarditis / diagnosis
  • Myocarditis / etiology
  • Myocarditis / pathology*
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Pulmonary Edema / etiology
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Stress, Psychological / complications

Substances

  • Catecholamines