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Table 1 Clinical variables according to absence or presence of early CHF

From: Echocardiographic predictors of early in-hospital heart failure during first ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction: does myocardial performance index and left atrial volume improve diagnosis over conventional parameters of left ventricular function?

 

CHF absent (n = 66)

CHF present (n = 29)

p

Age (years)

54.9 ± 10.2

65.8 ± 14.2

< 0.001

Systemic Hypertension

32 (49%)

18 (62%)

0.22

Diabetes Mellitus

12 (18%)

5 (17%)

0.91

Site of infarction

   

   Anterior

35 (53%)

19 (66%)

0.26

   Inferior

31 (47%)

10 (34%)

 

Treatment

   

   PTI

26 (39%)

10 (35%)

 

   Trombolysis

30 (46%)

10 (34.5%)

 

   Conservative

10 (15%)

9 (31%)

0.19

CKMB peak (iu/l)

205 ± 138

346 ± 239

0.004

Angiography

   

   Non obstructive

5 (8%)

1 (3%)

 

   One vessel disease

34 (51%)

10 (35%)

 

   Multivessel disease

22 (33%)

15 (52%)

 

   Not done

5 (8%)

3 (10%)

0.31

  1. Legend: data expressed by mean ± dp or absolute values and frequency (%); CHF: congestive heart failure; PTI: percutaneous transluminal intervention; CK: creatine kinase; angiography: non obstructive: obstruction absent or < 70% of luminal diameter, one vessel disease: obstruction ≥ 70% of luminal diameter in one or more epicardial coronary arteries, multivessel disease: obstruction ≥ 70% of luminal diameter in ≥ 2 epicardial coronary arteries.
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