Efficacy and short-term safety of percutaneous coronary intervention in elderly patients with acute myocar-dial infarction / 医学研究生学报

ABSTRACT

Objective Percutaneous coronary intervention( PCI) is effective in improving the ischemia and prognosis of pa-tients with acute myocardial infarction ( AMI) to reduce the short-term mortality.However, little research has been done on PCI in eld-erly AMI patients.The study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and the safety of percutaneous coronary intervention in elderly AMI patients (≥75 years old) . Methods 213 AMI patients who underwent emergency PCI in Jingling Hospital from January 2012 to December 2013 were divided into 2 groupselderly group (≥75 years old, n=57) and non-elderly group (<75years old,n=156).Retrospec-tive analysis were made on the clinical data and the coronary intervention features of the patients. Results There were more patients having dyspnea, fatigue and other heart failure symptoms at the onset of first-break AMI in elderly group than in non-elderly group (21.1%vs 3.2%,P<0.0).More women (47.4% vs 16.7%,P<0.01) and more patients with hypertention or diabetes mellitus were found in elderly group.The procedure success rates with TIMI-3 flow grade of post-PCI in both groups were very high (100%). Compared with non-elderly group, the occurrence of the procedure-related complications (3.5%vs 2.6%,P=NS) and major adverse cardiac event rates (8.8%vs 6.4%,P=NS) and in-hospital mortality (5.3%vs 2.6%,P=NS) showed no significant difference.Conclusion There are more atypical clinical symptoms in elderly AMI patients. The emergency PCI in elderly AMI patients can effectively make artery unimpeded with high successful rate, few com-plications and a favorable short-term prognosis.