“…However, some included high-risk patients with multiple myocardial infarction [10,13] and previous history of CHF [13] or with non-ST elevation [10-13], while others studied only anteroseptal AMI [14], that could affect their results. Moreover, some authors [11,13,14] considered diverse in-hospital complications besides CHF (recurrent angina, reinfarction, death, arrhythmias, heart block, cardiac rupture and pericardial effusion), not always solely related to the extend of LV dysfunction in the acute phase of AMI. These factors may justify some controversy about the short-term independent prognostic significance of MPI in AMI patients, defended by some [10,11,14] but questioned by others [12,13].…”