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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

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He also had a history of chronic kidney disease, stage III. Angio had shown some acute disease in the saphenous vein graft to the posterior descending artery off of the RCA. Bedside ultrasound showed no effusion and moderately decreased LV function, with B-lines of pulmonary edema. He had recently had a NonSTEMI.

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