‘Magic mushrooms’ trigger broken-heart syndrome: case
Scottish doctors say psilocybin fungi may have generated an emotional response in the patient that brought on the rare cardiac condition
Doctors say ‘magic mushrooms’ triggered takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) in a 59-year-old Scottish man, possibly due to the hallucinatory effect of the psychoactive fungi.
The man, with a history of anxiety and depression, presented to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary ED with visual hallucinations and acute respiratory distress following ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms.
