A 60-year-old woman presented to an emergency department with chest pain. At a wedding the day before, she had eaten wasabi thinking it was avocado and experienced chest pressure, which did not go away. Cardiac catheterization showed no obstructive coronary artery disease, but ventriculography showed features of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (“broken heart syndrome”), which is usually […]
A 60-year-old woman presented to an emergency department with chest pain. At a wedding the day before, she had eaten wasabi thinking it was avocado and experienced chest pressure, which did not go away. Cardiac catheterization showed no obstructive coronary artery disease, but ventriculography showed features of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (“broken heart syndrome”), which is usually […]