[Course and prognosis of patients with myocardial infarction during 7 years (observations in a cardiological clinic with an intensive care unit (author's transl)].
In a group of 701 male patients with acute myocardial infarction treated in intensive care unit from 1969 to 1976 30.0% died within the time of 1969--71 during the stay in the clinic. The lethality decreased significantly to 22.3% from the year 1972 until 1973, between 1974 and 1976 to 21.7% respectively, while the average age of the patients was growing. The number of patients with myocardial infarction in the age group of 50 to 69 years has decreased since 1974, whereas the number of patients in the age group of 70 years and older has increased, lethality sinking in this age group (from 57.4% 1969--71 to 32.3% 1974--1976). The incidence of threatening disorders of cardiac rhythm and their lethality has decreased. The high lethality of patients with cardiogenic shock remained unchanged high.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001604:Berlin; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000401:mortality
Verlauf und Prognose von Infarktpatienten im Ablauf von 7 Jahren (Beobachtungen an einer Kardiologischen Klinik mit Intensivstation).