A woman with cardiac arrhythmias has been in mortal danger for nine months. The reason for this is a rare disease that not much is known about.
The woman in her mid-fifties was transferred to our clinic in a state of shock with severe heart failure: her heart was not pumping enough blood through the body to supply the organs with enough oxygen. The medical history documents revealed that the patient had had an upper respiratory tract infection a few months previously. She hadn’t been able to get back on her feet since then and remained short of breath and tired. When she was admitted to the clinic from which she was transferred to us, it was noticed that the so-called troponin level was elevated. It is an indication that heart muscle cells are breaking down and is usually considered a sign of a heart attack, the most common cause of sudden heart failure. However, the woman was not a typical heart attack patient: she was slim, did not smoke, and had neither diabetes nor high blood pressure.
Source: Stern
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