Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)
Title
Academic Term
Summer 2015
Document Type
Project
Course Number
NURS 5330
Course Name
Advanced Pathophysiology
Professor’s Name
John D. Chovan, James R. Cacchillo
Keywords
Broken Heart Syndrome, Mental Health, Heart Disease
Subject Categories
Cardiovascular Diseases | Medical Pathology | Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing
Abstract
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a rare, reversible form of cardiomyopathy. First cases of takotsubo cardiomyopathy were described in Japan, twenty years ago (Milinis, & Fisher, 2012). takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a transient left ventricular dysfunction, typically triggered by severe emotional or physical distress. Left ventricular ballooning is characteristic of Takotsubo syndrome. Images of this ballooning resemble a takotsubo vessel used in Japan for collecting octopus, thus the reason for the syndrome name (Pelliccia, et. al, 2014). In recent years, this cardiomyopathy has been described as “Broken heart syndrome” because severe emotional stress has been implicated as the cause of this cardiomyopathy in “approximately two-thirds of patients” (Abisse, & Poppas, 2014, p. 24).
Recommended Citation
Occidental, Angela J., "Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy" (2015). Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN). 63.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/stu_msn/63