Acute myocardial infarction mortality related to use of calcium antagonists before admission to hospital.

We investigated whether prior use of calcium antagonists in 80 (16.8%) out of 477 patients (64% males) admitted with acute myocardial infarction (MI) had any impact on in-hospital mortality. Patients using calcium antagonists were slightly older (74 years vs.

Has hospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction been markedly reduced since the introduction of thrombolytics and aspirin? European Secondary Prevention Study Group.

Objectives: There are conflicting views on how hospital mortality with respect to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has changed since the introduction of thrombolytics and aspirin. Our purpose therefore was to explain this by studying hospital mortality in a nonselected AMI population. and then assess how patients allocated to different treatment groups contribute to overall mortality.

[The heart bridge. A follow-up study of cardiac patients from the health region 1 operated abroad during the period 1985-87].

During the years 1985 to 1987 a total number of 388 patients from the Norwegian health region 1 were transferred from Ullevål Hospital to heart centres abroad for heart operation because of the low operating capacity in our own hospital. The operative mortality in pure coronary bypass operations was 6.0%.

[The failing heart valve. History of the Björk-Shiley convex-concave heart valve].

Strut fracture with embolization of the valve disk has been reported worldwide in about 550 cases out of a total of 86,000 implanted Björk-Shiley convexo-concave disk valves. 320 of the patients died. In Norway six cases of strut fracture are reported, with five deaths.

[Long term results of the use of Björk-Shiley convex-concave heart valves. Ullevol hospital 1978-83].

In recent years, Björk-Shiley CC-valves have become the object of suspicion after several reports of strut fracture with embolization of the tilting disk and acute heart failure. At Ullevål Hospital Björk-Shiley CC-valves were used in 341 patients during the period October 1978 to March 1983. Strut fracture occurred in four cases, three of the patients died and one survived an emergency heart operation with replacement of the valve.