title: Prognostic significance of infarction location in patients with recurrent myocardial infarction. SPRINT Study Group. Secondary Prevention Reinfarction Israel Nifedipine Trial.
abstract: This study assesses the impact of infarct location on immediate (in-hospital) and 1- and 5-year mortality among patients with reinfarction during the year following discharge from the initial episode of myocardial infarction. The analysis included 192 patients with a second myocardial infarction who were compared in four infarction location groups. The in-hospital mortality associated with reinfarction was higher in patients with a second anterior (32%) than with a second inferior (18%) location, irrespective of the first infarction location (p = 0.03). At 5 years of follow-up, the mortality (65%) tended to be higher in patients with a first anterior-second anterior infarction as compared with patients with all other combinations of location.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kornowski
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Goldbourt
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reicher-Reiss
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Reisin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haim
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Moshkovitz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caspi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Behar
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality*; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012737:Sex Factors