Broken hearted

[image error]The Wall Street Journal has an article on a curious medical condition called 'broken heart syndrome' where grief or strong emotion seems mimic a heart attack.

The piece starts with a case description of a lady who had just experience the death of her husband from a heart attack and her reaction which seemed to also be a heart attack:

When doctors performed an X-ray angiogram expecting to find and treat a blood clot that had caused Mrs. Lee's symptoms, they were surprised: There wasn't any...

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Published on February 11, 2010 00:00
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