• Cardiovascular center de Camagüey: life-saving dreams

    I have read that aging begins at 20 calendars; also, that 20 years is nothing, and thus a series of truths and puzzles related to human beings. However, when a visit to the Cardiovascular Care Center of the Manuel Ascunce Domenech University Hospital, two decades after it was founded, you realize that time does matter and that far from aging the site offers life and something of utmost importance: there they do not stop dreaming.

  • Takotsubo syndrome: as if the heart was broken

    Takotsubo cardiomyopathy consists of a change in the geometry of the left ventricle * of the heart that normally has an ellipsoid shape and when this organ is subjected to unusual stress, it can change that shape towards an ovoid and the segments of the middle towards the tip of the heart stop moving and only the segments of the base do.