Sandbox/00012

Common Causes

Cardiogenic Shock

• Arrhythmic

• Atrioventricular block
• Sinoatrial block
• Supraventricular tachycardia
• Ventricular tachycardia

• Mechanical

• Acute mitral regurgitation (papillary muscle rupture, chordae tendinae rupture)
• Free wall rupture
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Obstruction to left ventricular filling (mitral stenosis, left atrial myxoma)
• Obstruction to left ventricular outflow tract (aortic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy)
• Ventricular septal defect

• Myopathic

• Cardiomyopathy
• Myocardial contusion
• Myocardial infarction
• Myocarditis
• Myxedema coma
• Postischemic myocardial stunning
• Septic myocardial depression

• Pharmacologic

• Anthracyclines
• Calcium channel blockers