Patient profile and follow‐up in medically and surgically treated young adults with myocardial infarction

Abstract

Summary:Twenty-four young patients with myocardial infarction (average age 32.1 years) undergoing coronary arteriography after infarction were followed for an average of 33 months after catheterization. Prior inferior infarction was a predictor of two and three vessel coronary occlusive disease. Prior anterior infarction patients had a 64% incidence of single vessel coronary occlusive disease. Improvement in anginal symptoms over the follow-up period from the time of catheterization for the entire group was 69%. Employment at follow-up was excellent in both medically and surgically treated patients (80%). Cardiac mortality from the time of catheterization was extremely low (4%).