ST elevation myocardial infarction complications

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editors-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]; Michael W. Tempelhof M.D. Duke University

ST elevation myocardial infarction can result in a number of complications. Complications are stratified into the following categories: ischemic, mechanical, arrythmic, embolic, and pericarditis.

• Reinfarction

• Cardiogenic shock
• Left ventricular aneurysm
• Myocardial rupture
• Pseudoaneurysm
• Rupture of the ventricular septum
• Papillary muscle rupture

• Atrial flutter
• Postinfarction conduction abnormalities

• Sudden cardiac death

• Stroke
• DVT

• Post myocardial infarction pericarditis
• Dressler’s syndrome

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