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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-1-17
pubmed:abstractText
A lot of acquired data concerning the prognostic factors of post-infarction mortality dates from the pre-thrombolysis era. This mortality has considerably decreased since the active management of the acute phase of myocardial infarction. This has made it more complex to evaluate the post-infarction electrical risk and may have reduced the need. However, it is not less true that the assessment of the post-infarction risk necessitates a study of each factor predisposing to severe ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death: myocardial ischaemia, left ventricular dysfunction and electrical instability. The latter parameter may be assessed by non-invasive (ventricular extrasystoles, late ventricular potentials, heart rate variability, the baroreflex and the QT interval) and invasive methods (programmed ventricular stimulation). The association of these results has an excellent negative predictive value, and also improves the positive predictive value which, nevertheless, remains insufficient for expensive prophylactic measures associated with a certain morbidity, for example the implantation of a defibrillator device, to be taken.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0003-9683
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
88 Spec No 3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
37-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-2-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
[Which patients at risk of sudden death after myocardial infarction? Critical study of prognostic factors].
pubmed:affiliation
Service de cardiologie, Hôpital central, Nancy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Review