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Stress Cardiomyopathy in Critical Care Neuroscience Patients

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In neurocritical care patients, particularly those with subarachnoid hemorrhage, stress cardiomyopathy affects up to 30% of patients, and it's often misdiagnosed as a heart attack, yet it's caused by a surge of stress hormones from the brain, not blocked coronary arteries.

Why this is interesting

Imagine a heart that looks like it's having a massive heart attack—but the arteries are wide open. What if the culprit isn't in the chest at all, but in the brain?