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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! Mechanisms of plaque formation and rupture. Coronary plaque disruption. Journal of Geriatric Cardiology , 19 (6).