Key result
Clinical and angiographic variables stratified annual cardiac mortality in medically treated ischemic heart disease, ranging from 0.29% in low-risk patients to 5.7% in high-risk patients.
Why the study?
What is the long-term survival and prognostic significance of clinical and angiographic variables in medically treated patients with ischemic heart disease?
Population
1083 patients less than 65 years old with ischemic heart disease, medically treated, who underwent exercise…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 66 months (min 36, max 93)
Authors
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Enables mortality stratification in medically treated IHD; extends prognostic models but leaves open whether angiography guides therapy decisions.
Cohort (n=1,083)
Yes
What is the long-term survival and prognostic significance of clinical and angiographic variables in medically treated patients with ischemic heart disease?
In medically treated patients with ischemic heart disease, annual cardiac mortality is low, and coronary angiography adds prognostic information primarily in patients with moderately severe disease based on clinical stratification.
Brunelli et al. (1989) conducted a cohort in ischemic heart disease (n=1,083). Clinical and angiographic variables was evaluated on annual cardiac mortality. Clinical and angiographic variables stratified annual cardiac mortality in medically treated ischemic heart disease, ranging from 0.29% in low-risk patients to 5.7% in high-risk patients.
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