Horses and Zebras: complex cardiac anatomy in a patient with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
This case report describes a woman presenting after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with several cardiac anomalies, including a form fruste of Ebstein's anomaly complicated by a large tricuspid valve vegetation. On autopsy, she proved to have unstable plaques in epicardial vessels that likely caused arrhythmic sudden cardiac death, a reminder that even in the presence of rare anomalies, common things are common.
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Critical Care Echocardiography Service, Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Samuel M
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Brown
Dylan V
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Miller
Daniel
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Vezina
Nathan C
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Dean
Colin K
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Grissom