The novelist Salomé Baudino publishes her first book, "Broken Heart Syndrome".

A title which refers, beyond the popular metaphor on heartaches, to a scientific reality.

The author, guest of Anne Roumanoff's program It feels good, explains this syndrome, the number of which is increasing with the health crisis.

INTERVIEW

What would our love stories look like if software could let us know the exact date of the end of our romances?

This dystopian question, already explored by an episode of the

Black Mirror

series

, is the starting point of Salomé Baudino's first novel, 

Broken Hearts Syndrome

, which the novelist presents in 

It feels good

.

The two heroes, Victor and Lola, will be affected by this syndrome, which she recalls that it does indeed exist and that it can be triggered by a positive or negative emotional shock.

The number of people affected is said to be on the rise due to the Covid-19 crisis.

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"It's quite disturbing, because until recently I was convinced that broken hearts syndrome was a fairly rare syndrome," explains Salomé Baudino.

"In fact, I recently discovered that this syndrome is quite common and even more so since the onset of the coronavirus. The cases have multiplied."

The novelist recalls that cardiologists launched the alert at the beginning of February, "so that people are aware of this phenomenon" which is experiencing a significant increase in the number of cases.

Heart like an amphora

Because this disease can be quite serious.

"But 90% of broken hearts get over it," reassures Salomé Baudino, who has researched the subject to write her novel.

“Broken-heart syndrome was discovered in the 1990s by the Japanese, who also called it Takotsubo syndrome,” named after an amphora that serves as an octopus trap.

"In this syndrome, the heart does not break. In reality, it is deformed, and it takes the form of this amphora", specifies the author.

This deformation, which precisely affects the left ventricle, alters the functioning of the myocardium, the muscle of the heart.

She intervenes following a shock.

"Broken hearts are victims of an emotional blow that is too brutal, after a great emotion which can be positive, like winning the lotto, or negative like the loss of a loved one."

The whole challenge of the two heroes of Salomé Baudino will be to recover.