In December of 2022, Linda Zoslocki, a then-69-year-old retired high school counselor in Modesto, California, had a deep cough that wouldn’t go away. She was tired, and her legs had been swollen for ...

Broken Heart Syndrome, or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a real condition where intense stress can trigger heart attack-like ...

Health professionals are warning the public about a rare but serious medical condition known as broken heart syndrome as Valentine’s Day approaches.

The authors describe how to diagnose and treat Takotsubo syndrome in a patient with COVID-19. This is the seventh installment of our 8-part series on cardiovascular complications in patients with ...

The specific mechanism remains unclear and the scope of the problem is still unknown, but something about the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be causing an uptick in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, clinicians on ...

Medical management Specific treatment for takotsubo cardiomyopathy has not yet been standardized. Initial treatment in an emergency department should follow protocol for an acute coronary syndrome.

Broken heart syndrome is a common name for stress-induced cardiomyopathy, or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a disease that affects the heart’s muscle tissue. In 1990, Japanese researchers named the ...

Takotsubo syndrome is uncommon following catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) but can have a malignant presentation that may require immediate intervention, a case series ...

Background. A 54-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with retrosternal chest pressure, nausea, and vomiting of 4 h duration. Her medical history included hypertension (treated with metoprolol and ...