What made the patient so unwell? I can't access the original paper. [edit] A 57-year-old man with chronic mild thrombocytopenia, hypertension, nonischemic car

What made the patient so unwell? I can't access the original paper. [edit] A 57-year-old man with chronic mild thrombocytopenia, hypertension, nonischemic cardiomyopathy, and previous mitral valve repair was hospitalized for severe heart failure with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 10%. His care was escalated to include multiple intravenous inotropic agents, and the placement of an intraaortic balloon pump was added on hospital day 11. Despite these measures, he had multiple ventricular arrythmias with arrests leading to resuscitation and began to receive peripheral venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on hospital day 23. Sad.