
Episode 59: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy with Vincent Sorrell
Critical Care Scenarios
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The Role of Stress Cardiac Disease in Coronary Disease
The original guidelines were written normal coronaries. That was a mistake. It should have said, you know, living in society today, a 65 year old woman in Kentucky, she's got coronary disease,. Does it explain what we see? And the answer to that is no, then it's stress cardiomyopathy. Or in our setting, a lot of what we're seeing is not necessarily plaque ruptures, but more of demand related ischemias. So I don't know how to piece those apart because it's not really an acute event either. Yeah. The question is, do you need to go now or do you needs to go at a different time? And that's
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