Current therapy of the right ventricle myocardial infarction.

Background: Acute myocardial infarction of the right ventricle (AMI-RV) is a separate subgroup within the scope of inferoposterior infarction of the left ventricle. It still represents the population of patients at high risk due to numerous, often hardly predictable complications and high mortality rate.

Methods: In fifteen-year period (1987-2001) 3,765 patients with the acute myocardial infarction (AMI) of different localizations of both sexes--2,283 males and 1,482 females of the average age 61.