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 ...

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 ...

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, Also Called “Broken-Heart Syndrome” In short, the stress seems to trigger a surge of catecholamines which acts upon the myocardium in a variety of ways to reduce the ...

Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Hikaru Sato and his colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy ...

The condition was seen in a 75-year-old female patient with a history of epilepsy and hypertension. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is stress-induced cardiomyopathy and can mimic acute coronary syndrome, as ...

The left ventricle is the main blood-pumping chamber of your heart. When the heart muscle in this chamber squeezes, oxygen-rich blood is pumped out of the heart to supply the organs and tissues of ...

We conducted a retrospective study to explore microcirculatory analysis in patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy by calculating TFC in the three main coronary vessels: the LAD, circumflex artery, and ...

A 32-year-old primiparous woman underwent emergency caesarean delivery and subsequently developed peripartum takotsubo cardiomyopathy, necessitating transfer to a tertiary critical care and heart ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), also known as apical ballooning syndrome or acute stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a condition in which the heart suddenly dysfunctions. The tip of the left ventricle ...

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 ...