With the study of the leukemic index as a prognostic marker in Acute Coronary Syndrome, Jonathan Andrés Quintero Villamizar, a postgraduate student in Internal Medicine, presented a study entitled “Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and complications in patients with a first acute coronary syndrome in Bucaramanga”, at the XIV International Symposium of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, held in Cartagena.
This study analyzed 115 patients with a first acute coronary syndrome in a third level hospital in Bucaramanga, Santander, with a 1 month follow-up. The majority were men, with elementary school education, in a free union and from an urban area.
The most common antecedents were hypertension and diabetes, and one third were smokers. More than half presented non-ST-elevation ACS and almost all were taken to catheterization, with findings of multivessel disease and reduced cardiac function.
The average hospitalization time was 5 days. The most frequent complications were arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and mitral valve insufficiency. Mortality in the first month of follow-up was 10%, reflecting the high risk of these patients.
This research was made possible thanks to the support of student mobility from the dean’s office of the Faculty of Health.
The authors who participated in the study are: Jonathan Andrés Quintero Villamizar, Boris Eduardo Vesga Angarita, Lady Rodríguez Burbano, Lina María Vera Cala, María Juliana Ardila Mantilla, Sebastián Fernando Flórez Duarte.
