What Becomes of the Broken-hearted

Broken-heart syndrome (aka takotsubo cardiomyopathy), my mother's suicide and other stories

Author: Juliet Sullivan

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A practical, sometimes humorous, sometimes devastating guide to the little-known, poorly understood, but increasingly prevalent heart problem sometimes called takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

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Summary

A practical, sometimes humorous, sometimes devastating guide to the little-known, poorly understood, but increasingly prevalent heart problem sometimes called takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Description

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is acondition in which the heart muscle becomes suddenly and severely weakened as aresult of great emotional and/or physical stress, causing the heart's leftventricle (main pumping chamber) to become significantly enlarged, resembling aJapanese octopus trap (a tako-tsubo). Correctly diagnosed and treated, thecondition is usually fully reversible. Based around her own experience of this syndromefollowing her mother's suicide, the Author explains the risks, the signs tolook out for, the Dos and Don'ts and the best ways to promote recovery. Sheincludes a selection of other patients' stories that show the diversity oftraumas that can lead to the syndrome, as well as input from a range of healthprofessionals who share the difficulties of identifying and treating thecondition.

About the Author

Juliet Sullivan is a recent and initiallyreluctant 'expert' on broken-heart syndrome having suffered a collapsefollowing the death of her mother and its very stressful aftermath. In the pastshe has been a journalist, having written for, among others, the Mail, She Magazine and her localnewspaper and for three years a regular column in the Canadian newspaper The Province entitled Diary of anImmigrant. She balances this with being a real estate agent, Christmas treeseller and wife and mother, living partly in England and partly in Canada. Herother books include her successful TheGallstone-Friendly Diet (also with Hammersmith Health Books), a moregeneral cookery book - The Best ofBritish Cookery - plus All Shook Up,the account of Suzie Derrett's natural battle with cancer, and a children'sbook about her Instagram-famous cat Benny.