BAIÉ, M. B.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6523062567297277; LUNA, Maria Luiza Batista de.; BAIÉ, Miriam Barreto.
Resumo:
Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is the leading cause of death in
the world. Thus, its adequate and quick management has a great impact in the
reduction of the morbimortality. There is, until this day, a shortage of studies
designed in the Brazilian Northeast, especially in the interior of Paraíba, with the
objective of tracing the epidemiological profile of the patients treated in this region for
this pathology.
METHODS: An observational cross-sectional study with a descriptive profile was
conducted, in which the medical records of the patients admitted between july and
december of 2018 in a cardiology center in the interior of Paraíba with the diagnosis
of ACS were evaluated.
RESULTS: 164 patients were admitted with the diagnosis of ACS in the studied
period. The study population had a mean age of 64.5 years and 59% were female
patients. The mean time of arrival at the hospital was 45.8 h after the onset of
symptoms. 73 patients (45.3%) received the diagnosis of ST segment elevation
myocardial infarction; 62 (38.5%) non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
and 26 (16.2%) unstable angina. The majority of the sample population had
significant obstructive lesions in multiple coronaries and the in-hospital mortality rate
was 15.2%.
CONCLUSIONS: It was observed a high prevalence of multi-arterial disease, long
period until arrival in the hospital center, a greater representativeness of ST-segment
elevation myocardial infarction and a high in-hospital mortality rate in the studied
population.