Epidemiological profile of acute myocardial infarction in Brazil between 2009 and 2019

Abstract

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the syndrome with classical clinical manifestations, laboratory evidence of necrosis by ischemia of the heart muscle, and characteristic changes in electrocardiogram (ECG). AMI can be classified into several types according to electrocardiographic, pathophysiological, clinical, prognostic and etiological criteria, which is valid because it allows specific and more assertive interventions to be performed