title: Follow-up of 2,733 Japanese patients with myocardial infarction.
abstract: Two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-three patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who were admitted to our 11 institutions between 1983 and 1988, examined by coronary arteriography and discharged alive, were followed for an average of 2.9 years. During the follow-up period, 212 patients (7.6%) died. The factors that governed the prognosis of myocardial infarction after discharge were advanced age, female gender, obesity, previous infarction, angina pectoris more than 1 month before the onset of AMI, post-infarction angina, multiple-vessel diseases, advanced stage by Killip's and/or Forrester's classification on admission, elevated pulmonary capillary arterial pressure, decreased cardiac index, decreased left ventricular ejection fraction, increased left ventricular end-diastolic volume and left ventricular aneurysm before hospital discharge. Patients with ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation during hospitalization showed a poor prognosis. In contrast, patients who received intracoronary thrombolysis, or emergent and/or elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty showed a favorable prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Women's Medical College, Heart Institute of Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hosoda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Toshima
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shibata
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Minamino
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiramori
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yaginuma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000150:complications; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000150:complications; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000150:complications; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000150:complications