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Patient is informed of her husband's death: is it OMI or it stress cardiomyopathy?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

After stent deployment, we often see improvement in the ST-T within seconds or minutes. Note the pressure on the arterial line, estimated at 45/25 mm Hg. But is the coronary pathology enough to explain the persistent ECG changes? Here is the final angiogram following placement of a stent in the ostial RCA. Noseworthy, P.