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Long-term (three-year) prognosis of patients treated with reperfusion or conservatively after acute myocardial infarction

Shmuel Gottlieb, MD^* , Valentina Boyko, MSc^*, David Harpaz, MD^*, Hanoch Hod, MD, FACC^*, Miriam Cohen, BSc^*, Lori Mandelzweig, MPH^*, Zahi Khoury, MD, Shlomo Stern, MD, FACC, Solomon Behar, MD^* for the Israeli Thrombolytic Survey Group

^* Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Heiden Department of Cardiology, Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. A complete list of the study participants appears in J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;28:1506–13

View larger version (33K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Thirty-day and three-year crude mortality rates by age subgroups (p for trend <0.0001, for both 30-day mortality and incremental three-year mortality rates).

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Three-year Kaplan-Meier cumulative survival curves for patients who underwent acute reperfusion and those who did not; differences were assessed by log-rank test; p = 0.0007.

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Three-year Kaplan-Meier cumulative survival curves for patients who underwent acute reperfusion and those who did not by reason of exclusion (contraindication, unqualifying electrocardiogram [ECG], late arrival and other reasons).

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 4 Three-year Kaplan-Meier cumulative survival curves for patients with non–Q-wave acute myocardial infarction who underwent invasive coronary procedures (angiography, angioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting, not including primary angioplasty) and those who did not; p = 0.002, by log-rank test.