Evolução hospitalar de pacientes com infarto de ventrículo direito e a importância da perviabilidade da artéria coronária direita / In-Hospital Outcome of Patients with Righ Ventricular Infarction and the Role of Right Coronary Artery Patency
Arq. bras. cardiol
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64(5): 435-438, Mai. 1995.
Article
in Portuguese
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE--To evaluate the importance of the right coronary artery (RCA) patency in patients with right ventricular infarction. METHODS--Fifty-two patients with inferior wall myocardial infarction and right ventricular involvement were studied and divided in two groups group A (GA) included 35 patients in whom the RCA was patent at coronary angiography, and group B (GB), 17 who had an occluded RCA. They were prospectively evaluated for electrical and hemodynamic complications, as well as in-hospital mortality. RESULTS--The mortality in GA was 11 and 29 in GB, p = 0.13; electrical complications were 11 in GA and 35 in GB, p = 0.06; hemodynamic complications were 8 in GA and 41 in GB, p = 0.009. CONCLUSION--These findings suggest a trend towards reduction in mortality and electrical complications, and significant reduction of hemodynamic complications in patients with inferior wall myocardial infarction with involvement of the right ventricle who have the RCA patent. Thus, RCA patency appears to be important in determining in-hospital outcomes of these patients.
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Main subject:
Vascular Patency
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Coronary Vessels
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Myocardial Infarction
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Arq. bras. cardiol
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
1995
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade de São Paulo/BR
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