Myocardial infarction is one the most important causes of admission and death at the Department of Cardiology of "Edgardo Rebagliati Martins" Hospital. This study reviews the complications of 536 patients admitted to our deoartment with the diagnosis of Q wave acute myocardial infarction from 1989 to 1993. Out of these, 234 patients (43.6%) had a complication, in 45 cases it was fatal, and total mortality was 8,4%. Pump failure was the most frequent complication, occurred in 106 cases (19,7%), and turned to cardiogenic shock in 28 patients (5,2%). Sinus tachycardia was the most frequent arrhytmia, in 152 cases (28,3%), followed by sinus bradycardia with 88 cases (16,4%), premature ventricular contractions in 58 cases (10,8%), atrial fibrillation in 40 cases (7,5%) and ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in 8 (1,5%) and 9 cases (1,6%) respectively. Is at this paper "quant...

Con el objetivo de describir las características clínicas y epidemiológicas de la insuficiencia cardiaca aguda (ICA), se realizó un estudio descriptivo en 1075 pacientes del Servicio de Emergencia de Adultos en el Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, entre diciembre de 2013 y marzo de 2017.

El desarrollo de nuevos conceptos en la fisiopatología de los cuadros coronarios ha condicionado que la restauración del flujo anterógrado a través de una arteria ocluida sea el objetivo principal de la terapia. La demostración de que la restauración del flujo Produce efectos importantes en la sobrevivencia marcó el inicio de la era trombolítica y de numerosos ensayos que evaluaron el impacto de esta terapia en la morbimortalidad del infarto de miocardio agudo. Los estudios sobre trombólisis prehospitalaria han dejado un mensaje claro, cuanto más temprano se inicie el tratamiento es mejor; cuando importa más que donde. la Publicación del estudio GUSTO ha estimulado mucho el debate sobre la terapia trombolítica; analizando este ensayo junto a los estudios GISSI-2 e ISIS-3, Podemos decir que el uso del t-pA "acelerado" confiere un Pequeño pero significativo beneficio adiciona...

Objective: To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics, evolution and treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.Materials and methods: A descriptive study that included 47 patients with a primary diagnosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Results: The average age of the patients was 48 years and 91.49 % were females. The average follow-up was 39 months.The main types of pulmonary arterial hypertension were the one associated with congenital heart diseases (48.93 %), the one associated with connective tissue diseases (21.28 %) and idiopathic hypertension (17.02 %). Monotherapy (mainly with sildenafil) and sequential combination therapy (sildenafil plus bosentan) were used in 78.72 % and 21.28 % of the patients,respectively. During the follow-up, 70.21 % of the patients were hospitalized at least once and five patients died, resulting in a cumulative to...