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Acute myocardial infarction. Prognosis complicated by ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest

dc.contributor.authorGoldberg, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorSzklo, Moyses
dc.contributor.authorTonascia, James A.
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Harold L.
dc.date2022-08-11T08:10:37.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T17:14:48Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T17:14:48Z
dc.date.issued1979-05-11
dc.date.submitted2010-05-27
dc.identifier.citationJAMA. 1979 May 11;241(19):2024-7.
dc.identifier.issn0098-7484 (Linking)
dc.identifier.pmid430795
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/47037
dc.description.abstractA community-wide study was conducted in metropolitan Baltimore in which the prognosis of 330 patients hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest (VFib/CA) was compared with that of 1,071 patients hospitalized with acute MI not complicated by VFib/CA. As expected, the in-hospital case-fatality rate among patients with MI complicated by VFib/CA was significantly higher than that in patients without VFib/CA. However, for patients discharged alive from the hospital, no significant differences in long-term survival were found between patients with MI with or without VFib/CA. These results suggest that attempts at preventing subsequent mortality should be diligently pursued in patients with MI who are discharged alive from the hospital regardless of the occurrence of VFib/CA in the acute phase.
dc.language.isoen_US
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dc.relation.urlhttp://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/241/19/2024
dc.subjectFollow-Up Studies
dc.subjectHeart Arrest
dc.subjectHospitalization
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMiddle Aged
dc.subjectMyocardial Infarction
dc.subjectPrognosis
dc.subjectVentricular Fibrillation
dc.subjectBioinformatics
dc.subjectBiostatistics
dc.subjectEpidemiology
dc.subjectHealth Services Research
dc.titleAcute myocardial infarction. Prognosis complicated by ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.source.journaltitleJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
dc.source.volume241
dc.source.issue19
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/177
dc.identifier.contextkey1332929
html.description.abstract<p>A community-wide study was conducted in metropolitan Baltimore in which the prognosis of 330 patients hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest (VFib/CA) was compared with that of 1,071 patients hospitalized with acute MI not complicated by VFib/CA. As expected, the in-hospital case-fatality rate among patients with MI complicated by VFib/CA was significantly higher than that in patients without VFib/CA. However, for patients discharged alive from the hospital, no significant differences in long-term survival were found between patients with MI with or without VFib/CA. These results suggest that attempts at preventing subsequent mortality should be diligently pursued in patients with MI who are discharged alive from the hospital regardless of the occurrence of VFib/CA in the acute phase.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathqhs_pp/177
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
dc.source.pages2024-7


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