RESUMO
Two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-three patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who were admitted to our 11 institutions between 1983 and 1988, examined by coronary arteriography and discharged alive, were followed for an average of 2.9 years. During the follow-up period, 212 patients (7.6%) died. The factors that governed the prognosis of myocardial infarction after discharge were advanced age, female gender, obesity, previous infarction, angina pectoris more than 1 month before the onset of AMI, post-infarction angina, multiple-vessel diseases, advanced stage by Killip's and/or Forrester's classification on admission, elevated pulmonary capillary arterial pressure, decreased cardiac index, decreased left ventricular ejection fraction, increased left ventricular end-diastolic volume and left ventricular aneurysm before hospital discharge. Patients with ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation during hospitalization showed a poor prognosis. In contrast, patients who received intracoronary thrombolysis, or emergent and/or elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty showed a favorable prognosis.
Assuntos
Infarto do Miocárdio/mortalidade , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Angina Pectoris/complicações , Arritmias Cardíacas/complicações , Vasos Coronários/patologia , Feminino , Seguimentos , Insuficiência Cardíaca/complicações , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Infarto do Miocárdio/patologia , Infarto do Miocárdio/fisiopatologia , Infarto do Miocárdio/terapia , Prognóstico , Fatores de Risco , Fatores Sexuais , Taquicardia Ventricular/complicações , Fibrilação Ventricular/complicaçõesRESUMO
The subjects consisted of 2,733 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who were admitted to our 11 institutions between 1983 and 1988, examined by coronary arteriography, and discharged alive. The patients were followed for an average of 2.9 years after discharge. During the follow-up period, re-infarction occurred in 172 patients (6.3%). The factors associated with re-infarction were total cholesterol of more than 250 mg/dl, HDL-cholesterol of less than 35 mg/dl and diabetes mellitus. The rate of re-infarction was also high in patients who had had a previous infarction before admission, angina pectoris before or after the onset of AMI or multiple-vessel disease. In contrast, intracoronary thrombolysis reduced the rate of re-infarction.