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Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Acute myocardial infarction is often accompanied by some degree of heart failure. In general, anterior infarction is associated with more severe pulmonary congestion than is inferior infarction. Inferoposterior infarction is occasionally associated with the syndrome of right ventricular infarction, i.e., hypotension with or without bradycardia, clear lung fields, and elevated right heart filling pressures. It is common for patients to have no symptoms of heart failure when an S4 gallop rhythm is present (usually reflecting elevated left ventricular end-diastolic pressure) , and about half the patients with significant pulmonary congestion evident on chest x-ray have no abnormal physical findings.

This chapter provides a more detailed discussion of several of the topics covered in chapter 11.

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  1. Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Elliott M. Antman M.D., F.A.C.C (Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Director Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Unit) & John D. Rutherford M.B., F.R.A.C.P., F.A.C.C (Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Co-Director, Clinical Cardiology Service)

  2. Cardiologist, Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

    John D. Rutherford M.B., F.R.A.C.P., F.A.C.C (Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Co-Director, Clinical Cardiology Service)

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Antman, E.M., Rutherford, J.D. (1986). Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction. In: Coronary Care Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2303-7_12

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