 |
|
Early Discharge Following Acute Myocardial InfarctionLong-term Follow-up of Randomized Patients
Kenneth L. Baughman, MD;
Adolph M. Hutter, Jr, MD;
Roman W. DeSanctis, MD;
Clayton H. Kallman, ScM
Arch Intern Med. 1982;142(5):875-878.
Abstract
Long-term follow-up was obtained on 138 patients who participated in a prospective, randomized study comparing two weeks with three weeks of hospitalization following uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction. Follow-up information was available on 123 (89%) of all randomized patients. The mean follow-up period was 35 months for those patients who died and 99 months for those who survived. No differences were found between the two groups with respect to survival, cardiac-related deaths, frequency or severity of angina pectoris, subsequent myocardial infarction, incidence of congestive heart failure, number of ventricular aneurysms, or subsequent medical therapy. A significantly greater number of survivors in both groups stopped smoking and had a normal initial heart size than those who died. This long-term follow-up study further supports the conclusions of earlier short-term studies that two weeks of hospitalization is safe in patients with uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction.
(Arch Intern Med 1982;142:875-878)
Author Affiliations
From the Cardiac Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (Drs Baughman, Hutter, and DeSanctis), and the Division of Cardiology (Biostatistics), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Dr Kallman).
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 7, 1981.
Reprint requests to Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 (Dr Hutter).
 CiteULike  Connotea  Delicious  Digg  Facebook  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter
What's this?
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES
Mortality Risk Reduction Associated With Smoking Cessation in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review
Critchley and Capewell
JAMA 2003;290:86-97.
ABSTRACT
| FULL TEXT
|
