A broken heart in a broken car

Broken heart: Broken mind.

The increased frequency of sudden cardiac death after earthquakes and bombings has long proposed that emotional distress plays a role in acute coronary syndromes and arrhythmias. Since the 1960s, several controlled, prospective, epidemiological studies have reported emotional distress as a major risk factor for the onset and worsening of coronary heart disease (CHD) [1]. The Interheart study, a...

A broken heart.

A 70-year-old woman with no past cardiac history was admitted for near collapse and chest discomfort that occurred when she was informed that her husband of 45 years had died in our hospital of congestive heart failure and refractory ventricular arrhythmias. The ECG revealed minor anterior ST-segment elevations and inferolateral ST-segment depressions, which resolved after intravenous nitroglyc...

broken heart syndrome: a case report

stress-induced cardiomyopathy or takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a recently increasing diagnosed disease manifested by transient apical or mid left ventricular dilation and dysfunction. this sign is similar to acute myocardial infarction but without significant coronary artery stenosis. there are important and essential differences between takotsubo cardiomyopathy and acute myocardial infarction in...

A Broken Metallic Tracheostomy Tube

Hope for a Broken Heart?

Heated debate has surrounded the issue of whether adult stem cells can differentiate into cardiac myocytes and contribute to the function of the heart. In this issue of Cell, demonstrate stem cells in the adult rat heart that differentiate into cardiac myocytes in vitro and, when injected into the adult rat heart, can reconstitute the injured myocardium and improve function. These findings shou...