Age-specific peculiarities of primary and recurrent myocardial infarction of male patients

Reasons of myocardial infarction and its pathogenesis were studied in the first 48 hours after primary or recurrent myocardial infarction in 863 male patients of different age. It was specified that the disease of male patients of middle and old age, especially of the ones with recurrent myocardial infarction, has abnormal characteristics with prevailing symptoms of heart insufficiency in systemic and pulmonary blood circulation. Cardiac rhythm disorders prevail among the complications of the male patients with primary and recurrent myocardial infarction in both age groups. Pulmonary edema, cardiac asthma, cardiac aneurisms, thromboendocarditis and pulmonary embolism were frequent in died male patients over 60 with recurrent myocardial infarction. Besides the patients happened to have 3 and more complications; multiple-complication combinations were also common, stipulated by electrical instability, contractive deficit and mechanical incompetence of myocardium.