Atrioventricular block after acute myocardial infarction and its association with other clinical parameters in Pakistani patients: an institutional perspective

• Published in: BMC research notes 2018-05, Vol.11 (1), p.329-329, Article 329
• Main Authors: Hashmi, Kashif Ali, Shehzad, Amir, Hashmi, Atif Ali, Khan, Amir
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Age; Angioplasty; Cardiac patients; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Complete atrioventricular block; Complications and side effects; Conduction; Defects; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Dyslipidemia; Electrocardiography; Females; Gender; Health aspects; Heart; Heart attack; Heart attacks; Heart block; Hypertension; Morbidity; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Obesity; Population studies; Research Note; Risk factors; ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
• ISSN: 1756-0500; 1756-0500
• DOI: 10.1186/s13104-018-3431-5

Conduction defects complicating acute myocardial infarction are frequently associated with increased morbidity and mortality. As frequency of this complication has not been widely studied in our population, therefore in this study we aimed to evaluate the frequency of complete atrioventricular block in patients with acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and its association with other clinical parameters. The mean age of the patients was 50.55 ± 6.72 years at the time of MI. There were 147 (82.1%) males and 32 (17.9%) females. There were 83 (46.4%) patients having hypertension, 61 (34.1%) diabetes mellitus, 75 (41.9%) smokers, 75 (41.9%) patients having positive family history, 11 (6.1%) having dyslipidemia, and 73 (40.8%) obese patients in this study. The Frequency of complete atrioventricular (AV) block in acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction was found to be 7.3%, and no association with any other clinical factor was found which could predict this condition according to results of our study. Therefore, protocols should be designed in our routine clinical practice to deal with such a life threatening condition.