PMID: 15227094Mar 1, 1984Paper

Surgical intervention in acute myocardial infarction

Texas Heart Institute Journal
S L SelingerM A DeWood

Abstract

The goal of surgical reperfusion during the first hours of acute evolving myocardial infarction is to limit the extent of the infarction. This should be reflected by improved ventricular function and low mortality. Over the past 10 years, 440 patients with transmural myocardial infarction and 261 patients with nontransmural myocardial infarction underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery within 24 hours of peak symptoms. The in-hospital mortality was 5.2% in the transmural group and 3% in the non-transmural group. In a 10-year study period, the mortality in the transmural group rose to 12.5%, while the mortality in the nontransmural group, followed for an 8-year period, rose to a total of 6.5%. The transmural myocardial infarctions in patients revascularized within 6 hours, showed a significantly improved in-hospital mortality of 3.8% compared to an in-hospital mortality of 12% for reperfusion after 6 hours. Anterior transmural areas of myocardial infarctions were reperfused within 6 hours of symptom onset, and demonstrated improved global ejection fraction and regional wall motion. Little improvement was seen if revascularization was instituted later than 6 hours from symptoms except in patients with adequate collateral pe...Continue Reading

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