title: Survival for 20 years or longer after transmural acute myocardial infarction: analysis of eight well-documented necropsy patients.
abstract: Clinical and necropsy findings are described in eight patients who lived 20 to 31 years (mean 24 years) after healing of a transmural acute myocardial infarct. Two had left ventricular aneurysms and one had both right and left ventricular infarcts. Survival for 2 decades or more after healing of a transmural acute myocardial infarct has rarely been documented and descriptions of hearts at necropsy in patients with well-documented infarcts 20 years or more earlier are virtually nonexistent.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*