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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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! Just a few weeks ago, I took care of a patient who had ostial RCA OMI (TIMI 0 at cath) and his only complaint was syncope!