Stress cardiomyopathy

. Faz can mean:. Of 3,000,000 heart attacks in US women diagnosed each year as many as 60,000 may actually be Broken Heart Syndrome, requiring different treatment, according to some estimates. Forces Armées Zaïroises (the former regular army of the Mobutu regime). For unknown reasons the great majority of stress cardiomyopathy cases have been diagnosed in women. The economic proposal of the Financial Autonomous Zone. The common treatment for heart attack of administering adrenalin to support blood pressure is not appropriate for this condition. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Current theory has it that a sudden, massive surge of adrenalin stuns the heart, greatly reducing the ability to pump blood. A fictional race of beings featured in the sci-fi Star Control computer game series; see Faz (Star Control). Only recently it became more known in the western world. Jazz musician Irving Fazola. It was originally described in Japan as takotsubo-syndrome. Emotional stress may trigger stress cardiomyopathy.

Stress cardiomyopathy could easily be confused with a heart attack, but stress cardiomyopathy is much less serious. In the human body, stress cardiomyopathy (or broken heart syndrome) is a condition in which heart muscles are temporarily weakened.