Citation

Barel MS, Toukan N, Abo Aqil A, Aviad C, Kobo OM, Roguin A. Can. J. Cardiol. 2024; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2024, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.cjca.2024.06.010

PMID

38889849

Abstract

The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the scale of the death toll and its brutality, will go down as one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern history. Following these events, we observed an increase in hospitalizations of young women with suspected heart problems. A common characteristic of all the female patients was that they were mothers of soldiers fighting inside Gaza without any communication with their sons, and lack of knowledge of their situation and health.

Language: en

Keywords

Stress; Terror; Cardiomyopathy; Takotsubo; Emotional Reaction