Outcomes and predictors of mortality among octogenarians and older with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary coronary angioplasty.

Background: Elderly patients are at high risk of mortality when they present with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). However, few data exist about prognostic factors in this sub-group when treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI).

Hypothesis: To assess outcome and predictors of mortality among patients aged >80 years treated with pPCI.

Acute pulmonary embolism: external validation of an integrated risk stratification model.

Background: In hemodynamically stable patients with acute pulmonary embolism, risk stratification is essential to drive clinical management. In these patients, risk stratification for in-hospital adverse outcomes based on markers of right ventricular dysfunction and injury has been proposed.

Methods: The aim of this study was to validate a model based on the incremental prognostic value of right ventricular dysfunction and injury in hemodynamically stable patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

[Percutaneous coronary intervention in the elderly].

Developed countries are experiencing an unprecedented growth in the number of elderly citizens. Elderly patients represent one third of all admissions for non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome in the coronary care unit. Treatment is more complex due to comorbidities.