Patient’s rare cardiac death shows need for RACGP guidance: coroner
The patient died of an AMI triggered by giant-cell arteritis of the coronary artery
A coroner has urged the RACGP to adopt guidelines for the management of potential acute coronary syndromes after a patient died from a rare cause of AMI.
Aged 49, the patient had no known cardiac risk factors but died after developing giant-cell arteritis (GCA) of the coronary artery, which led to the AMI.
