[Atrial fibrillation and flutter as a complication of acute myocardial infarction (author's transl)].
Among 909 patients with acute myocardial inarction treated in an intensive care unit between 1970 and 1974, atrial flutter and (or) fibrillation occurred in 124 (13.6%). The incidence of these arrhythmias rose with increasing age and predominantly in paroxysmal form (78%). The clinic mortality of patients with arrhythmias was 42%, while in the remaining 785 it was only 26% (P less than 0.001). Patients with atrial fibrillation and (or) flutter had a higher mean age, more frequently cardiac failure (P less than 0.001) - especially in the prognostically unfavourable severe forms with pulmonary oedema (P less than 0.05) and combined right and left heart failure (P less than 0.001) - and other disorders of impulse conduction or formation and chronic arterial hypertension (P less than 0.01).
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D001282:Atrial Flutter / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D001604:Berlin; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000150:complications
Vorhofflimmern und -flattern als Komplikation des akuten Myokardinfarktes