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Objectives. We sought to study the incidence and clinical correlates of elevated filling pressures in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, without physical signs of heart failure and treated with primary coronary angioplasty.
Background. Haemodynamic data, as measured with a Swan-Ganz catheter, are not routinely obtained in STEMI patients. At admission, low blood pressure, increased heart rate, sweating, increased respiration rate, rales, oedema, and a third heart sound are indicative of heart failure.
Methods. All consecutive STEMI patients were monitored by a Swan-Ganz catheter and central venous pressure (CVP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), pulmonary artery pressure (PAS) and cardiac index (CI) were measured. To investigate the clinical correlates of the haemodynamic status patients were classified according to previously defined haemodynamic criteria.
Results. We studied 90 patients, aged 60.5±13.1 year, 76% were male. Mortality at 30 days was 2/90 (2.2%). Patients with impaired haemodynamics presented later and had larger myocardial infarct sizes. CVP, PCWP and PAS were above normal in 36 (40%) patients.
Conclusion. A large proportion of STEMI patients without physical signs of heart failure have elevation of right- as well as left-sided cardiac filling pressures. (Neth Heart J 2007:15:95-9.)
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Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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Bergstra, A., Svilaas, T., van Veldhuisen, D.J. et al. Haemodynamic patterns in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: incidence and correlates of elevated filling pressures. NHJL 15, 95–99 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03085962
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