[Chronic renal failure: an independent factor of mortality after myocardial infarction]. / L'insuffisance rénale chronique, facteur de risque indépendant de mortalité après un infarctus aigu.

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: The prognostic significance of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was studied in a registry of 754 patients admitted for myocardial infarction in Franche Comté; 333 of them had STEMI. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One-year mortality was 11.5% 2.3% in the group with normal GFR, 9.4% in the group with moderate renal failure, and 24.2% in the group with severe renal failure. GFR increased the prognostic value of conventional risk scores. CONCLUSION: Chronic renal failure therefore appears as a major independent predictor of mortality after myocardial infarction.