What baseline clinical characteristics relate to short- and long-term survival after the diagnosis of coronary artery disease?
Cardiac markers of short-term mortality in patients with coronary artery disease include left ventricular dysfunction, extensiveness of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and acuteness of presentation. Other marker s of short-term mortality include advanced age, prior cardiac surgical procedure, and non-cardiac vascular disease and co-morbidity, especially renal or pulmonary dysfunction. Baseline characteristics that influence long-term survival, regardless of the therapy chosen, include left ventricular ejection fraction, age, co-morbidity, non-cardiac vascular disease, congestive heart failure, and myocardial infarction within 24 hours of presentation.
