Case 40-2010 — A 68-Year-Old Woman with Chest Pain during an Airplane Flight

Picard, MichaelRosenfield, KennethDigumarthy, SubbaSmith, Rex2016-12-092010Cabot, Richard C., Nancy Lee Harris, Jo-Anne O. Shepard, Eric S. Rosenberg, Alice M. Cort, Sally H. Ebeling, Christine C. Peters, et al. 2010. “Case 40-2010.” New England Journal of Medicine 363 (27) (December 30): 2652–2661. doi:10.1056/nejmcpc1011317.0028-4793http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:29666957A 68-year-old woman was transferred to this hospital because of substernal chest pain. An ECG showed evidence of MI. Coronary angiography was performed, with stenting of an occluded coronary artery. On the fourth hospital day, hypotension, bradycardia, and cardiac arrest occurred, and the patient died.en-USCase 40-2010 — A 68-Year-Old Woman with Chest Pain during an Airplane FlightJournal Article2016-12-0910.1056/NEJMcpc1011317