love is in the air on valentine's day - but for some people love can be a sore subject. many of us have experienced the emotional pain that comes with heartbreak. but for some - that pain can lead to a serious medical condition called the broken heart syndrome. news 4's angela christoforos met a western new york woman who felt the effects firsthand, angela. jacquie dying of a broken heart is something we've all heard of - you may recall in late december actress debbie reynolds passed away one day after her daughter carrie fischer. it isn't just a figure of speech - you actually can die of heartbreak. and the condition can strike people who are completely healthy. when melania (pronounced melanie) gromek thinks back to her favorite memories of her big sister, florence - it's the little things that come to mind. ((she was just a good friend, did a lot of things together, christmas baking was always together, and we just got along well we understood eachother.))...
so i ran 18 miles thismorning, and i'm wearing heels. so i want lots ofapplause at the end. thank you. [applause] so i'm in the americanstudies department, which is something of a-- it'sa very interdisciplinary field. and i use the kinds of insightsfrom history, from literature, and from medicalscience to think about a particulardiagnosis that was in use fromroughly the civil war until world war i. it'scalled irritable heart. and the way that i findout about this illness, the way i learn about notjust the way physicians talked about it, but what patientsunderstood about it is by using pension records. these records come fromthe national archives. and they tell incredible storiesabout civil war soldiers, some of whom were at the frontfor only a few weeks, others who were at the front forthe duration of the war and then went west afterwards. these records include everythingfrom individual medical care to pulses to familystories that can tell us something about what ...
and debbie decked out as she sings in the rain. fisher captured the photo this is a beautiful love story to witness in my 58 years. i miss them both so much. love is everlasting. a lot of people have said debbie must have died of a broken heart. we wondered is that possible? cbs2's dr. max gomez has the answer. reporter: she was america's sweetheart dancing her way into all our hearts. could it have been a broken heart that took her life? you can actually die of a reporter: she has studied cardiomyopathy medical language for broken heart syndrome. she says it is medically conceivable the sudden death of reynolds dr. carrie fisher could have caught her death. we think of broken heart syndrome may be a real surge of adrenaline that is toxic to the heart muscle itself or perhaps mediated in other ways through the arteries going to spasm. the heart muscle does not move as well as it is supposed to. and it feels like a heart attack to doctors. and it is a form of heart attac...
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