Clinical Profile, Predictors of Mortality, and Treatment of Patients after Myocardial Infarction, in an Academic Medical Center Hospital

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate clinical profiles, predictors of 30-day mortality, and the adherence to international recommendations for the treatment of myocardial infarction in an academic medical center hospital. METHODS: We retrospectively studied 172 patients with acute myocardial infarction, admitted in the intensive care unit from January 1992 to December 1997. RESULTS: Most patients were male (68%), white (97%), and over 60 years old (59%). The main risk factor for coronary atherosclerotic disease was systemic blood hypertension (63%). Among all the variables studied, reperfusion therapy, smoking, hypertension, cardiogenic shock, and age were the predictors of 30-day mortality. Most commonly used medications were: acetylsalicylic acid (71%), nitrates (61%), diuretics (51%), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (46%), thrombolytic therapy (39%), and beta-blockers (35%). CONCLUSION: The absence of reperfusion therapy, smoking status, hypertension, cardiogenic shock, and advanced age are predictors of 30-day mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction. In addition, some medications that are undoubtedly beneficial have been under-used after acute myocardial infarction.

Racionalidades e ambiguidades da organização instituto federal: o caso do Rio Grande do Norte

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Educação (área de especialização em Organização e Administração Escolar).

Jornalistas e fontes de informação: uma relação de luta e de confiança

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Informação e Jornalismo)

Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and other islands which may properly be included on account of their faunal affinities /

v.13:pt.2:no.1(1918)

Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles B. Cory.

v.13:pt.2:no.2(1919)

Arabs of central Iraq, their history, ethnology, and physical characters / by Henry Field -- ; with introduction by Sir Arthur Keith --. Berthold Laufer --, ed.

v.4(1935)

Anasazi painted pottery in Field Museum of Natural History / by Paul S. Martin -- and Elizabeth S. Willis.

v.5(1940)

The Characeae of America / by Timothy Field Allen.

pt. 2

The Characeae of America / by Timothy Field Allen.

pt. 1