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Cardiogenic shock caused by right ventricular infarction

A report from the SHOCK registry

Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC^*,*, Jane A. Leopold, MD, FACC^*, Eric Bates, MD, FACC, Lisa A. Mendes, MD, FACC^*, Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD, Harvey White, DSc, Ravin Davidoff, MB, BCh^*, Jean Boland, MD^||, Sharada Modur, MS, Robert Forman, MD, FACC^¶ and Judith S. Hochman, MD, FACC^#

^* Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
^|| Centre Hospitalier Regional Citadelle, Liege, Belgium
^¶ Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
^# St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 In-hospital outcomes in patients with predominant right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) shock.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 In-hospital survival curves for patients with predominant right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) shock truncated at 50 days. In-hospital survival rates were 46.9% for patients with predominant RV shock and 39.2% for patients with LV shock.

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Mortality for patients with predominant right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) shock undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA).