In-hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction in Kosovo : A single center study

In general, clinical presentation and outcome of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and coronary artery disease vary across regions and differ from country to country. 1 Significant differences in the prevalence of AMI exist with respect to gender, age and ethnicity. 1Despite major progress in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, coronary artery disease is the leading cause of mortality in the general populat t tion. 2 Several studies have shown that in patients with AMI, age 70 years or older is clinically important and an independent predictor of increased risk of inthospit t tal death.3t6 Most previous studies demonstrated that women have a higher inthospital mortality than men.7t 11 Several prior randomized clinical studies that comt t pared primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with thrombolysis have demonstrated that primary angioplasty is more effective than intravenous