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The Management of Chronic Disease

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Around Xmas time in 2020, she developed a flu-like illness and after that she started noticing that she was getting breathless on very modest levels of exertion. Interventions that may prolong life include implantation of a defibrillator. So she contacted her GP but unfortunately couldn’t even get an appointment for 3 weeks.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She was defibrillated and resuscitated. associated typical Myocardial Infarction therapies such as statins and ACE inhibitors with significantly decreased 1 year mortality in MINOCA patients, which suggests that they do indeed have a similar pathophysiology to MI patients with obstructive coronary disease. Lindahl et al.

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