On the Rise, Especially in Women 50-74

Elaine S. Kamil, MD, professor emerita of pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; well being sciences medical professor of pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

Susan Cheng, MD, director, Institute for Research on Healthy Aging, Smidt Heart Institute; director of cardiovascular inhabitants sciences, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Tracy Stevens, MD, heart specialist and medical director, Muriel I. Kauffman Women’s Heart Center, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO.

Kevin Bybee, MD, affiliate professor of drugs, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; medical director, cardiovascular providers, Saint Luke’s South, Overland Park, KS.

Abhijeet Dhoble, MD, director of structural coronary heart interventions, heart specialist, and affiliate professor of drugs, University of Texas Health Science Center and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston.

Joanie Simpson, Camp Wood, TX.

Harvard Health Publishing: “Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (Broken-Heart Syndrome). 

Mayo Clinic: “Broken coronary heart syndrome.”

Journal of the American Heart Association: “Sex- and Age-Based Temporal Trends in Takotsubo Syndrome Incidence within the United States.”

American Journal of Cardiology: “Trends and Impact of the Use of Mechanical Circulatory Support for Cardiogenic Shock Secondary to Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.”

Annals of Internal Medicine: “Systematic overview: transient left ventricular apical ballooning: a syndrome that mimics ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.”
Clinical Aspects of Myocardial Injury: From Ischemia to Heart Failure: “Takotsubo-type cardiomyopathy because of multivessel spasm.”