PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | myocardial stunning |
| Phenotype | C0027059|myocarditis |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22634172 | Affected are 2% of 40 000 cardiac surgical patients who fail to separate from cardiopulmonary bypass and around 5% of 25 000 myocardial infarction patients who progress to cardiogenic shock.12 these disparate groups suffer ischaemia followed by reperfusion injury, then lethal but potentially recoverable myocardial stunning.3 young patients with myocarditis or postpartum cardiomyopathy may experience a similar fate through an inflammatory process. |
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