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

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It is possible there is microvascular dysfunction producing residual transmural ischemia. But this is most common when there is prolonged ischemia, and this patient had the fastest reperfusion imaginable! In addition to profound acute heart failure, the patient suffered from electrical storm. link] Jentzer, J. Kashou, A.