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RODRIGUEZ-LONDRES, Jany et al. Behavior of hospital fatality in patients with acute myocardial infarction with the use of reperfusion therapy in 12 years of work in the Intensive Coronary Unit of the Institute of Cardiology at Havana, Cuba. Rev. Mex. Cardiol [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.1, pp.7-14. ISSN 0188-2198.

Introduction: The cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of mortality in the world. The reperfusion therapy of acute myocardial infarction has considerably diminished the mortality for that cause. Objectives: To evaluate the behavior of the reperfusion therapy in this entity and their influence of the hospital lethality. Method: An observational, retrospective and descriptive study was carried in 2,493 patients admitted in the Intensive Coronary Cares Unit in the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, with the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction during the period between January of the 2001 and December of the 2012. The patients were characterized according to clinical variables and it was calculated the general hospital lethality and the related with the different reperfusion methods. Results and discussion: There was an increase in the number of patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction. The general lethality average was of 7.1%. The lethality in patients that received the primary, rescue and in shock percutaneous coronary interventionism was of 4.1%, 10.8% and 34.6%, respectively. Since 2001 the number of patients treated by percutaneous coronary interventionism has increased, while the application of the fibrinolysis was less used at the end of the study than before. The lethality of these therapeutic options was of 4.1% against 5%, respectively, this results being less when compared to those patients that didn't receive this treatment (13%). Conclusions: The appropriate application of the reperfusion methods has demonstrated favorable influence in acute myocardial infarction lethality in the hospital.

Palabras llave : Acute myocardial infarction; reperfusion therapy; lethal.

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