Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The “broken heart syndrome,” also known as “Takotsubo cardiomyopathy,” or “stress induced cardiomyopathy,” or ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is also known as also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, broken-heart syndrome or apical-ballooning syndrome and occurs with a sudden increase in sympathetic nervous ...

Referring to a broken heart usually doesn’t signal mortal peril, but a new study has identified a condition associated with heartbreak and comparable to acute coronary artery syndrome. “Broken-heart ...

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 ...

Background: A 71-year-old woman presented with severe chest pain after an episode of acute emotional distress. Her serum levels of cardiac enzymes were slightly elevated and electrocardiography ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(2):215-221. Given the mode of presentation, the majority of patients undergo urgent or emergent cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography. A finding of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My mom was just admitted to the hospital with chest pressure. She had just lost her husband of 62 years last week, and she initially thought this was just stress. They said she might ...

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 ...

BOSTON, MA—When patients come in with chest pain, elevated troponin, and no obstructive coronary disease, use of an advanced imaging modality like cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) may help ...

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications volume 4, issue 1, pp. 25-30(6); DOI https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2019.0008, Sohah N. Iqbal, MD ...