Publications by authors named "Asuncion Lopez-Martinez"
Background: To assess age-related differences in cardiovascular risk factors, clinical course and management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in intensive care (ICU) or coronary care units (CCU).
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted of all AMI patients listed in the ARIAM register (Analysis of Delay in AMI), a multi-centre register in which 119 Spanish hospitals participated. The study period was from January 1995 to January 2001.
Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence, clinical course, prognosis and mean length of stay in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated by high-grade atrioventricular block (HAVB).
Material/methods: A retrospective cohort study including all AMI patients listed from January 1995 to September 2000 in the ARIAM multi-center register. Univariate analysis was carried out to study the factors associated with the development of HAVB, the mortality rate, and the mean length of stay, and multivariate logistic regression analysis to study whether HAVB is an independent predictive variable for mortality or prolongation of stay.