Abstract
This study assesses the impact of infarct location on immediate (in-hospital) and 1- and 5-year mortality among patients with reinfarction during the year following discharge from the initial episode of myocardial infarction. The analysis included 192 patients with a second myocardial infarction who were compared in four infarction location groups. The in-hospital mortality associated with reinfarction was higher in patients with a second anterior (32%) than with a second inferior (18%) location, irrespective of the first infarction location (p = 0.03). At 5 years of follow-up, the mortality (65%) tended to be higher in patients with a first anterior-second anterior infarction as compared with patients with all other combinations of location.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 441-445 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Cardiology (Switzerland) |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 1997 |
Keywords
- Infarction location
- Infarction location
- Location
- Myocardial infarction
- Prognostic significance
- Recurrent infarction