[Myocardial infarct in the aged subject. Its prognostic significance]

After our study on 72 patients over 70 years, admitted to a coronary care unit since january 1975 to december 1977 and compared with a control group of 119 patients under 70 years, we found that the hospital mortality rate was of 32% for the geriatric subjects and of 9,3% for the control group. Women over 70 years had a higher mortality: 14 (over 72) to 3 (over 119). The AMI was the more diffused, with a death percent rate higher (40%) than infarctions elsewhere localized. Between death causes, cardiogenic shock often occurred in AMI (69,5%). From a follow-up carried out in january 1978 it resulted that 57% of the 49 geriatric dismissed patients 28 survived and 15 (30,5%) died.