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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

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He also had a history of chronic kidney disease, stage III. Angio had shown some acute disease in the saphenous vein graft to the posterior descending artery off of the RCA. If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., Most recent echo showed EF of 60%. He had recently had a NonSTEMI. mEq/L, from 1.9

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

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35 In a large multicenter double-blind randomized trial (LoDoCo2) involving 5,522 patients with clinically stable coronary artery disease, almost all of them on statin therapy, colchicine, 0.5 mg is associated with a 30–40% reduction in median hsCRP levels and a 16% reduction in median IL-6 levels in patients with chronic coronary disease.33,36,37