title: Comparison of early invasive and conservative treatments in patients with anterior wall non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction.
abstract: To compare the long-term prognosis of a group of patients treated by an early invasive approach after a non-Q-wave anterior wall acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with a similar group treated conservatively, data from 110 consecutive patients with non-Q-wave AMI were retrospectively obtained from 3 different hospitals: (1) a hospital with coronary angioplasty and coronary bypass facilities favoring on early invasive approach, (2) a hospital with a catheterization laboratory and no coronary angioplasty or coronary bypass facilities, and (3) a community hospital without a catheterization laboratory. Patients were divided according to the presence or absence of an early invasive approach: those who had undergone in-hospital catheterization and revascularization (n = 55) and those with a conservative approach (n = 55). The early invasive approach resulted in a significant decrease in major events. The rate of recurrent myocardial infarction was 29% in the conservative group versus 7.2% in the invasive group (p = 0.025). Survival rate curves at 3-year follow-up showed significant differences in mortality (p = 0.001), recurrent myocardial infarction (p = 0.002), recurrent angina pectoris (p = 0.001), and development of congestive heart failure (p = 0.05). Multivariate analysis disclosed the early invasive approach to be an independent predictor for decreasing the likelihood of recurrent infarction by 86% (odds ratio 0.14, confidence intervals 0.04 to 0.48, p = 0.0006), and for decreasing the likelihood of recurrent angina by 66% (odds ratio 0.34, confidence intervals 0.18 to 0.63, p < 0.005). The early invasive strategy may result in an improved outcome in the treatment of patients with non-Q-wave anterior wall AMI compared with patients treated conservatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Hospital, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Lotan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jonas
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rozenman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mosseri
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benhorin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rudnik
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hasin
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Gotsman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000209:etiology; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors