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Clinical Peculiarities and Expected Prognosis of Patients with Different Clinical Manifestations of Exercise-Induced Myocardial Ischemia after Q-wave Myocardial Infarction

Z. Pagava, N.Chagiashvili, G. Mamaladze, I.Maisuradze, M. Tsiskaridze, L. Donadze,
I. Mdivani, Ts. Qristesiashvili, D.Bachtadze, S. Tsikarishvili

Institute of Cardiology, Tbilisi, Rehabilitation Center

Key words: myocardial ischemia, Q-wave infarction, silent ischemia, exercise-induced ischemia.

The question addressed by this study was the evaluation of the clinical and prognostic significance of different type of exercise-induced ischemia in patients with previous Q-wave myocardial infarction.
120 consecutive stable patients (mean 56,2 ± 8.6 years ) with previous MI who underwent a Bruce treadmill test were enrolled in our study. The patients were retrospectively classified into 4 groups according to exercise test results: 1-painless ischemia, 26 patients, 2-painfull ischemia, 14 patients, 3-negative ET, 12 patients, 4-nondiagnostic ET 68 patients. Patients with painless ischemia had less functional impairment and less exercise ischemia than the symptomatic patients (longer exercise duration p < 0,05, higher double product p< 0,05, higher ischemic threshold p < 0,01 , and shorter time to ST normalization p < 0,001. Annual mortality rate for patients with painless exercise ST segment deviation was 2,5 - times less than for patients with painful ischemia (p< 0,05) . Patients with silent ischemia demonstrated similar higher 5 year survival rate. (p < 0,5)
Stable patients with previous Q-wave MI represent a very low –risk population. In this subset, painless exercise–induced ischemia signifies less severe ischemia than the symptomatic one and has prognostic power.
 

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