The One-Year Prognostic Value of the Pre-Discharge ECG after the First Acute Myocardial Infarction.
10.4070/kcj.1988.18.1.41
- Author:
Yeong Ho CHOI
;
Suck Koo CHOI
;
Won Sang YOO
;
Hyun Je LEE
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Pre-discharge ECG;
Acute myocardial infarction
- MeSH:
Depression;
Electrocardiography*;
Hospital Mortality;
Humans;
Mortality;
Myocardial Infarction*;
Prognosis;
Seoul
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
1988;18(1):41-47
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
To assess the prognostic value of the 14 ECG variables obtained from the pre-discharge ECG, 35 patients were followed up for at least one year among the 80 patients of the acute myocardial infarction admitted at Seoul Paik Hospital from Sep. 1983 to Aug. 1986. The following results were obtained. 1) The overall in-hospital mortality rate was 20% and the mortality rate tended to decline year by year. 2) The one-year mortality and morbidity rate of the followed patients was 31.4%. 3) Among the 14 variables obtained from the pre-discharge ECG, T-negativity was the only statistically significant (p<0.05) one to predict the one-year prognosis in the patients after the first myocardial infarction, and we could not derive any meaningful datd from the analysis of the combined effects of the three ECG variables (PTF, ST depression and ST elevation).
