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Da Costa's syndrome, also known as soldier's heart among other names, was a syndrome or a set of symptoms similar to those of heart disease. These include fatigue upon exertion, shortness of breath, palpitations, sweating, chest pain, and sometimes orthostatic intolerance.
Soldier’s Heart was a term for the odd symptoms soldiers during the civil war experience after the war was over, most notably odd heart rhythms. It is the precursor to what was later referred to as “battle fatigue”, “shell shock”, and finally PTSD.
1 mar 2005 · Soldier's Heart comes from the physiological model, the observations that people's cardiovascular system in terms of their heart dynamics, their blood pressure, a pulse rate, seemed to be...
During the early stages of World War I, in 1914, soldiers from the British Expeditionary Force began to report medical symptoms after combat, including tinnitus, amnesia, headaches, dizziness, tremors, and hypersensitivity to noise.
Combat-related distress was also referred to as “soldiers’ heart” or “irritable heart” and viewed as a cardiac issue. Symptoms of “soldiers’ heart” included breathing problems ...
27 maj 2020 · Soldier’s Heart (SH) is a former medical diagnosis, rarely mentioned nowadays, presented under several other names. Considering the controversy regarding the removal of Soldier’s Heart diagnosis from DSM-5, this study aimed to conduct a systematic review to evaluate its usage in the clinical practice.
23 wrz 2016 · “Soldier's Heart,” is an American Civil War term linking post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with increased propensity for cardiovascular disease (CVD). We have hypothesized that there might be a quantifiable genetic basis for this linkage.
