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Does right ventricular involvement increase the risk of in-hospital death in elderly patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction?
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.
May prompt closer shock surveillance in elderly inferior MI; hypothesis-generating for targeted interventions.
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.
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