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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. I have read articles that say that patients without ischemia are at low risk of complications from hypokalemia, But it is not entirely without risk.

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