{"id":640462,"date":"2026-04-30T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640462\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:31:21","slug":"patrick-muldoons-cause-of-death-contributing-factors-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640462\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Muldoon’s Cause of Death, Contributing Factors Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

New details have come to light regarding the death of Patrick Muldoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the Days of Our Lives star died on April 19 at the age of 57<\/a>, his cause of death was confirmed as a myocardial infarction, more commonly called a heart attack, per his death certificate, obtained by Us Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The certificate\u2014released by the County of Los Angeles\u2019 Department of Public Health\u2014also revealed several underlying factors that led to his death, including hereditary coagulopathy disorder, which is a condition that affects the blood\u2019s clotting activities, per John Hopkins Medicine<\/a>. The doc also said he suffered from a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot that travels to the lungs from elsewhere in the body and blocks blood flow, according to the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Muldoon was cremated on April 28, as stated on his death certificate, which listed his occupation as an actor and a producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Melrose Place star\u2019s sister Shana Muldoon-Zappa had previously shared that her brother died of a heart attack while giving a sweet look at the last video<\/a> their family had received from Muldoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New details have come to light regarding the death of Patrick Muldoon.\u00a0 After the Days of Our Lives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-640462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}