BRICK TOWNSHIP — Eva Maravelias began losing consciousness in her Toms River home in March 2024 and later found herself at Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center (OUMC) in Brick, where the care team determined not only was the main artery to her heart torn, but other arteries as well.
Months later, Maravelias was reunited with the doctors who saved her life, at the place where the doctors saved her life, OUMC on Jack Martin Boulevard in Brick.
Dr. Arthur Okere, an interventional cardiologist, who led Maravelias’ care said, “Reuniting with Eva was magical and surreal. My first thought was how different she looked compared to what I remembered in the hospital, as she was lying in the hospital bed on a ventilator, in cardiogenic shock, with the Impella device in her groin.”…