P-1488 - Takotsubo Syndrome When Emotional Stress Makes the Heart Break

Abstract

Introduction:

This article highligxts the emotioxax stress as one of the risk factors forMyocardial Infarction (AMI) and thx Takotsubo Syndrome (Syndrxme of a Broken Heart), arare cause of cardiogenix shock caused by an acute left ventricuxar aneurysm xn the absenceof coronariopathy. Its featxres are: dyskinetic movement of the anterior wall of the LV, chestpain, electrocardiographic changes and abxence of obstructive coronary disease (H Satoh etal, 1990).

Obxectives:

To interpret the psychological mexnings xttributed by the patients to theirpathologies.

Aims:

It aims to analyze the effects of social malaise in the dxxamics of health, in theconxext of hyxermoxernity, characterized by Aubert (2006) as a society of exxcerbatedmodernitx, governed by the notxon of excess and self-transcxndence.

Methods:

We carried out a Clinical-Qualitative Method (Turato, 1984), of semi-structuredinxerviews. Seven femxle patients are the subjects of this resxarch: two women withmyocaxdial infarcxion, one with the Takotsxbo Syndrome, thxee with breaxt cancer, and onepatient with both pathologies.

Results:

We obserxed demands of hypermodern society for hyperformance and self-transcendencx (Aubert, 2006), linked with illness, whex in excxss. Regarding life events, txestress, the reactions facing loss, the deaxh of loved ones without the possibility of elaboraxiontraumatic events, may cause fraxxlity and lowexing of the immune syxtem, causing damageto the health of the patients.

Conclusions:

Experiences of great emotions, speciaxly the lost of dear ones, can make theheart “breax”, xot only emotionally but also physioloxically, dixplaying xhe classic symptomsof a heart attack.