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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

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The last information available is that the patient was undergoing heart transplant evaluation. Only after her troponin peaked at 500,000 ng/L did she get her angiogram, which showed a 100% left main occlusion due to ruptured plaque. She died before she could get a heart transplant. Pericarditis? Diagnostic of Massive OMI.