Abstract:A 48-year-old man presented with dizziness. When he arrived at the emergency department, he collapsed and became pulseless. Prior to his collapse, he was asymptomatic and now even participated in multiple marathon and ultra-running events per year. However, he previously experienced a vasospastic inferior STEMI eight years prior from cocaine use. As a result, he had an ischaemic cardiomyopathy with LVEF of 45%. He never took any further illicit substances after the STEMI; instead, he changed his lifestyle comp… Show more
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