Relationship between left ventricular ejection fraction and mortality after myocardial infarction complicated by heart failure or left ventricular dysfunction.

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Date publication

juillet 2018

Journal

International journal of cardiology

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr ROSSIGNOL Patrick

Tous les auteurs :
Hall TS, von Lueder TG, Zannad F, Rossignol P, Duarte K, Chouihed T, Dickstein K, Atar D, Agewall S, Girerd N,

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30144995

Résumé

Identifying risk factors for specific modes of death in patients with heart failure (HF) or left ventricular (LV) dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction (MI) may help to avert events. We sought to evaluate LV ejection fraction (LVEF) as a prognosticator of specific death modes.