[Chronic renal failure: an independent factor of mortality after myocardial infarction].

PURPOSE: The prognostic significance of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was studied in a registry of 754 patients admitted for myocardial infarction in Franche Comté; 333 of them had STEMI.

PATIENTS AND

METHODS

One-year mortality was 11.5%: 2.3% in the group with normal GFR, 9.4% in the group with moderate renal failure, and 24.2% in the group with severe renal failure. GFR increased the prognostic value of conventional risk scores.

CONCLUSION

Chronic renal failure therefore appears as a major independent predictor of mortality after myocardial infarction.