Patient profile and follow-up in medically and surgically treated young adults with myocardial infarction.
Twenty-four young patients with myocardial infarction (average age 32.1 years) undergoing coronary arteriography after infarction were followed for an average of 33 months after catheterization. Prior inferior infarction was a predictor of two and three vessel coronary occlusive disease. Prior anterior infarction patients had a 64% incidence of single vessel coronary occlusive disease. Improvement in anginal symptoms over the follow-up period from the time of catheterization for the entire group was 69%. Employment at follow-up was excellent in both medically and surgically treated patients (80%). Cardiac mortality from the time of catheterization was extremely low (4%).
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D012306:Risk