Validation of myocardial infarction diagnosis in patients with congenital heart disease in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The population of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) is growing, and increasingly more patients with CHD reach older ages. Patients with CHD are at an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) with increased age. Diagnosing MI in patients with CHD can be challenging in clinical practice owing to a high prevalence of aberrant electrocardiograms, ventricular hypertrophy, and heart failure, among other factors. The National Swedish Patient Register (NPR) is widely used in epidemiological studies; however, MI diagnoses specifically in patients with CHD have never been validated in the NPR.

Methods

We contacted hospitals and medical archive services to request medical records for 249 patients, born during 1970-2012, with both CHD and MI diagnoses and who wer

SUBMITTER: Fedchenko M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584083 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature