Atrial Flutter Associated With Acute Myocardial Infarction

Atrial Flutter Associated With Acute Myocardial Infarction

Between 1966 and 1968, 35 of 340 patients (10.3 percent) admitted to the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center with documented myocardial infarctions were noted to have atrial flutter while being monitored in the coronary care unit. This incidence is higher than that fo...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Western journal of medicine 1981-08, Vol.135 (2), p.97-103
Hauptverfasser: Blumlein, Steven L., Armstrong, Roberta, Haywood, L. Julian
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Adult
Aged
Atrial Flutter - complications
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction - complications
Prognosis
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Zusammenfassung:Between 1966 and 1968, 35 of 340 patients (10.3 percent) admitted to the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center with documented myocardial infarctions were noted to have atrial flutter while being monitored in the coronary care unit. This incidence is higher than that found in most previous studies. Patients with atrial flutter had significantly higher mortality than infarction patients without flutter (P
ISSN:0093-0415
1476-2978