She suspected a heart attack, but was diagnosed with broken heart syndrome

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https://www.npr.org/2025/02/17/nx-s1-5292139/health-stress-cardiomyopathy-heart-attack

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She was diagnosed with stress cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome. You may think of a broken heart as a metaphorical idea, but this is a real condition that can bring on a sudden and dramatic weakening of the heart muscle after a stressful event.

She's kind of a classic case," says Dr. Joy Gelbman, a cardiologist at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, who treated Carraballo once she was back in New York. Typically, people make a full recovery, and are often prescribed medications, such as beta-blockers, temporarily.

It's almost like the heart is overworked
Broken heart syndrome, which is also known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, can be tricky to diagnose. Some of the tests performed in the emergency room can produce the same results as someone having a heart attack. For instance, there may be changes in an electrocardiogram, or EKG, similar to a heart attack.

Broken heart syndrome can cause an increase in a cardiac enzyme called troponin, in the blood, that is also elevated by a heart attack. "And the echocardiogram — which creates images of the heart — typically shows a characteristic ballooning of the heart muscle," Gelbman explains.

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