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Short- and Long-Term Prognostic Importance of Complete Bundle-Branch Block Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction
Dubois, Christophe; PIERARD, Luc; Smeets, J. P. et al.
1988In Clinical Cardiology: International Journal for Cardiovascular Diseases, 11 (5), p. 292-6
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Abstract :
[en] Among 1013 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 104 (10%) developed complete bundle-branch block (BBB). The clinical characteristics and the short- and long-term prognosis were similar in the 53 patients with right and the 51 patients with left BBB. Compared to the 909 patients without this conduction disturbance, these 104 patients were older (64 +/- 9 vs. 58 +/- 10 years, p less than 0.001), more frequently women (26 vs. 17%, p less than 0.05), had a larger infarct (peak CK 1672 +/- 1124 vs. 1356 +/- 1089 IU/l, p less than 0.001), more frequently anterior (60 vs. 37%, p less than 0.001). They had a higher incidence of Killip class greater than 1 (63 vs. 38%, p less than 0.001), pericarditis (40 vs. 23%, p less than 0.001), atrial fibrillation or flutter (22 vs. 12%, p less than 0.01), ventricular fibrillation (15 vs. 9%, p less than 0.05), and atrioventricular block (23 vs. 11%, p less than 0.001). Both hospital mortality (32 vs 10%, p less than 0.001) and 3-year posthospital mortality (37 vs. 18%, p less than 0.001) were much higher among patients with complete BBB. Transient BBB had the same deleterious prognosis as BBB persistent at discharge (mortality 33 vs. 39%, NS). The prognostic importance of BBB was more prominent during the first 6 months after infarction (mortality between 6 and 36 months: 18% with BBB vs. 11% without BBB, NS).
Disciplines :
Cardiovascular & respiratory systems
Author, co-author :
Dubois, Christophe;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Cardiologie
PIERARD, Luc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Cardiologie
Smeets, J. P.
Foidart, G.
Legrand, Victor ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Cardiologie
Kulbertus, H. E.
Language :
English
Title :
Short- and Long-Term Prognostic Importance of Complete Bundle-Branch Block Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction
Publication date :
May 1988
Journal title :
Clinical Cardiology: International Journal for Cardiovascular Diseases
ISSN :
0160-9289
eISSN :
1932-8737
Publisher :
Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, United States - New Jersey
Volume :
11
Issue :
5
Pages :
292-6
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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