India, Sept. 22 -- Are you suffering from chest pain and breathlessness suddenly? While this may raise concerns about a possible heart attack because the symptoms coincide, there's also a temporary heart condition which shows similar symptoms. So all popular symptoms associated with heart attacks may not always be heart attacks.

Dr Rahul Chhabria, Associate Director of Emergency Cardiology at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, told HT Lifestyle in an interview that this condition is called Broken Heart Syndrome, and it is reversible. It is also medically known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Explaining how it may be confused with a heart attack, he said, " This is a temporary, reversible heart condition t...