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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 ...

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

This so-called Broken Heart Syndrome—also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy—can often be confused for a heart attack. However ...

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 ...

Certain behaviors or life changes may prompt cardiomyopathy, as well. For example, the extreme emotional trigger that can lead to Takotsubo cardiomyopathy might be the loss of a loved one ...

[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 ...

“Patients with takotsubo syndrome are particularly susceptible to hospitalization from cardiac, mental health, pulmonary, ...