Does right ventricular involvement increase the risk of in-hospital death in elderly patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction?
Right ventricular involvement is a major risk factor for in-hospital mortality and cardiogenic shock in elderly patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction.
Elderly patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction have a substantially increased risk of death during hospitalization when right ventricular involvement is present. The poorer outcome is due mainly to the high incidence of cardiogenic shock and its infrequent reversibility.
Bueno et al. (Tue,) studied this question.