Can Breaking Heroin Addiction Lead to a Broken Heart? A Case of Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Heroin Withdrawal.

Reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy is triggered by emotional or physical stress and has a presentation similar to that of acute coronary syndrome. A 39-year-old woman with a history of heroin use disorder presented with intractable nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. She was diagnosed with heroin withdrawal and started on buprenorphine-naloxone.

An automated fractionation mapping algorithm for mapping of scar-based ventricular tachycardia.

Background: Mapping and ablation of fractionated electrograms is a common treatment for scar-based ventricular tachycardia (VT). An automated algorithm has been developed for rapid "fractionation mapping."

Methods: Electroanatomic maps from 21 ablation procedures (14 scar-based VT and seven control idiopathic VT/premature ventricular contractions with normal voltage) were retrospectively analyzed using the Ensite Precision fractionation map (fMap; Abbott Laboratories; Abbott Park, IL, USA) algorithm.

National perioperative outcomes of pulmonary lobectomy for cancer in the obese patient: a propensity score matched analysis.

Objectives: Obesity in the United States is a growing epidemic that results in challenging patients with complicated comorbidities. We sought to compare hospital outcomes of obese patients with those of nonobese patients undergoing pulmonary lobectomy for cancer.

Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of obese (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m(2)) and nonobese (body mass index < 30 kg/m(2)) patients undergoing pulmonary lobectomy for lung cancer.