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WebMD discusses broken heart syndrome, a condition that occurs when stress and a troubled mind affect the heart, causing symptoms that can mimic a heart attack.

Joe Garcia, whose wife was killed in the Texas school shooting, died Thursday. Doctors said he showed signs of broken heart syndrome, which mimics a heart attack.

Broken heart syndrome is also known as stress cardiomyopathy or takotsubo syndrome. Symptoms are similar to a heart attack and occur when a person experiences severe emotional or physical stress.

That’s what the heart looks like with Broken Heart Syndrome. It isn’t really a ballooning out — it just looks like that because of the difference in the top and middle part.