Recent Myocardial Infarction

RECENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

A 68-year-old woman with multiple cardiac risk factors had sudden onset of crushing substernal chest pain. Despite aggressive thrombolytic therapy, the patient had electrocardiogram (ECG) evidence of a transmural antero-lateral myocardial infarction (MI). Three weeks following the MI, the patient develops acute cholecystitis, and presents for a cholecystectomy.