Diagnosis: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy Management: Treatment with β-blockers, aspirin, angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors, and intravenous diuretics. A 71-year-old woman presented to an ...

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 ...

The ECG findings in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy ― also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, broken-heart syndrome or apical-ballooning syndrome ― are nonspecific, meaning there is not one ...

Medical experts confirm that this is a real phenomenon. Known as broken heart syndrome, or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, this condition is triggered by intense emotional or physical stress and mimics ...

Diagnosis. Stress-induced (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy (apical ballooning syndrome). Management. The patient was monitored with cardiac telemetry. Metoprolol and ramipril were continued. A 54-year ...

[File, Standard] Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been diagnosed with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as "broken heart" syndrome, a condition that weakens the heart's main pumping ...