Let’s Learn About Broken Heart Syndrome (Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy)

Let’s Learn About Broken Heart Syndrome (Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy)

REINHA.com – Broken heart syndrome is also called Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo means octopus traps that resemble the pot-like shape of the stricken heart) and stress induced cardiomyopathy, meaning that stress has caused dysfunction or failure of the heart muscle.

Womem are more prone than men to experience the symptoms of Broken Heart Syndrome and about 12.000 people would have experienced Broken Heart Syndrome.

In Broken Heart Syndrome, a part of your heart temporarily enlarges and doesn’t pump well, while the rest of your heart functions normally or with even more forceful contractions.

Broken Heart Syndrome is different with a heart attack. Because, unlike a heart attack, there’s no evidence of blocked heart arteries in Broken Heart Syndrome, although the symptoms are similar.

Common symptoms for Broken Heart Syndrome are chest pain and shortness of breath. This condition usually reverses it self in days or weeks but the initial symptoms may be life threatening, so it is important to get medical attention.

# Let’s Learn About Broken Heart Syndrome (Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy)