CLINICAL ONE-YEAR OUTCOMES AFTER STENTING IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION

We retrospectively review our results of 96 stent placements in 64 pat ients identified from our data base who received stents acutely and wi thin 48 hr of acute myocardial infarction. The average age was 60 year s; 77% were male, The average length of stay was 6.75 days, Three pati ents needed coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) before discharge: 2 for stent occlusion and 1 for papillary muscle rupture, Need for CABG , further percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), myoca rdial infarction, and death defined outcome, Mean patient follow-up wa s 10.3 (+/-5.3) months, Seventy-two percent of patients were free of o utcome events at 1 year, 17% needed CABG, and 11% required further PTC A. There were 2 myocardial infarctions and 1 death, Presence of left b undle branch block on admission electrocardiogram and angina in hospit al after stent placement predicted worse outcome (P < 0.01). (C) 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.