DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, the complaint is dismissed insofar as asserted against the appellants, and the action against the remaining defendants is severed.
The appellants established their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law through the medical records submitted, the deposition testimony of the appellant Cory A. Muscara, and an expert's affidavit ( see Alvarez v. Prospect Hosp., 68 N.Y.2d 320; Sanders v. Jamaica Hosp., 280 A.D.2d 462). In opposition, the expert affidavit submitted by the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether the appellants deviated from accepted medical practice by failing to arrange a stress test for the deceased ( see Alicea v. Tuerk, 271 A.D.2d 557). "General allegations of medical malpractice, merely conclusory in nature and unsupported by competent evidence tending to establish the essential elements of the claim, are insufficient to defeat a defendant physician's entitlement to summary judgment" ( Kramer v. Rosenthal, 224 A.D.2d 392).
As there is no evidence in the record that the deceased died due, "in whole or in part, to his having undergone `some affirmative violation of his physical integrity' in the absence of informed consent," the cause of action based upon lack of informed consent must be dismissed ( Schel v. Roth, 242 A.D.2d 697, quoting Karlsons v. Guerinot, 57 A.D.2d 73, 82; see Keselman v. Kingsboro Med. Group, 156 A.D.2d 334).
The appellants' remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit.
RITTER, J.P., FEUERSTEIN, H. MILLER and ADAMS, JJ., concur.