Dr. Ilan Wittstein, MD, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, once had a middle-aged patient who discovered that her husband was cheating on her. Shortly after a heated argument over the infidelity, the woman began to experience shortness of breath and a crushing chest pain. Although it felt like a heart attack, it wasn’t. Quite literally, the woman was suffering from a broken heart. Officially known as takotsubo cardiomyopath ... Jump to full article >>
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