Predominant subtype of heart failure after acute myocardial infarction is heart failure with non-reduced ejection fraction.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Patients who survive acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are at risk of being rehospitalized owing to the occurrence of acute decompensated heart failure (HF). However, the clinical characteristics of HF after AMI, especially the frequency of each HF subtype, are unclear.

Methods and results

We retrospectively studied 1055 patients with AMI. We excluded 257 patients, who were admitted >48 h after the onset of AMI, died during hospitalization or after discharge, and whose echocardiogram data at index hospitalization and follow-up data were missing. The remaining 798 patients (mean age: 66.5 ± 11.7 years) were investigated for a mean follow-up period of 4.9 years. All patients underwent emergency coronary angiography. The mean maximum creatine kinase levels were 2898 ± 2627

SUBMITTER: Kamon D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7835561 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature