Former NBA dancer Brittany Thornton once nearly died of a broken heart. NCH’s Dr. Viviana Navas is a heart failure specialist at NCH’s Heart Institute and says, “Medically we call it a stress cardiomyopathy.” In common terms, the condition is called “broken heart syndrome”. People who undergo extreme emotional trauma may develop sudden, severe failure of the heart muscle. Read More >
WINK News covers the medical condition stress cardiomyopathy.
