Sentences with phrase «in broken heart syndrome»

In broken heart syndrome, the bottom of the heart temporarily balloons out and resembles the shape of the traps, says Dr. Stein, who is also a spokesman for the American Heart Association.

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The syndrome effectively breaks down your autonomic nervous system: the system that controls everything that is meant to happen automatically in the body - so your heart beat, digestion, circulation and immune system.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or «broken heart syndrome,» occurs when the bottom of the heart balloons into the shape of a pot (a tako - tsubo) used in Japan to trap octopus.

An extreme example of this intimate heart - anahata connection is the «broken heart syndrome,» caused by sudden, extreme stress in the form of shock, grief or sadness that results in a sick heart.

Her problem is referred to as the «broken heart syndrome» and almost always manifests in women with some extreme psychological distress.

It's even possible for a breakup to result in something called broken heart syndrome, a temporary enlargement of the heart (with symptoms mimicking a heart attack) brought on by extreme physical or emotional stress.

«When we do angiograms of the arteries [in people with broken heart syndrome], there isn't any obstruction of the coronary arteries,» says Nieca Goldberg, MD, the director of the Women's Heart Center at New York University Langone Medical Ceheart syndrome], there isn't any obstruction of the coronary arteries,» says Nieca Goldberg, MD, the director of the Women's Heart Center at New York University Langone Medical CeHeart Center at New York University Langone Medical Center.

If you experience broken heart syndrome, specialists generally provide supportive care (such as diuretics to combat the accumulation of fluid in the lungs), while the body performs its natural process of self - healing.