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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

In addition to profound acute heart failure, the patient suffered from electrical storm. Multidisciplinary critical care management of electrical storm. Was her outcome to be expected for ostial RCA OMI? Or was it out of proportion, perhaps worsened by the sympathetic surge? We will never know for certain.