title: [Myocardial infarct in the aged subject. Its prognostic significance].
abstract: After our study on 72 patients over 70 years, admitted to a coronary care unit since january 1975 to december 1977 and compared with a control group of 119 patients under 70 years, we found that the hospital mortality rate was of 32% for the geriatric subjects and of 9,3% for the control group. Women over 70 years had a higher mortality: 14 (over 72) to 3 (over 119). The AMI was the more diffused, with a death percent rate higher (40%) than infarctions elsewhere localized. Between death causes, cardiogenic shock often occurred in AMI (69,5%). From a follow-up carried out in january 1978 it resulted that 57% of the 49 geriatric dismissed patients 28 survived and 15 (30,5%) died.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000209:etiology; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000209:etiology
vernacular_title: L'infarto miocardico dell'anziano. Suo significato prognostico.