Mid‐Ventricular Ballooning Heart Syndrome

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Abstract
Stress cardiomyopathies have been increasingly reported these last years, especially in women as a transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome. We report six cases in whom, in the context of anxious situations, echocardiograms and ventriculographies revealed mid‐ventricular akinesis with preservation of apical and basal contractilities with normal coronary arteriography. This “mid‐ventricular ballooning heart syndrome ” should probably be classified as a new type of heart stress related syndrome.