Clinical features of acute myocardial infarction: A report from Halibet Referral Hospital in Eritrea

Seyoum, Yemane; Leake, Negassi

doi:10.4314/jema.v1i1.52645

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“…The study documented the major modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors such as smoking, uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes mellitus. Mortality rate was reported to be 35.8 percent which is concordant with studies that were done in the United States, mainland Europe [11]. According to WHO (2011), in Eritrea the prevalence of cigarette smoking was 6 percent (13% for men and less than 1% for women); and in 2010 the prevalence of total alcohol per capital consumption, raised blood pressure and obesity were reported to be 1.1 percent, 23.2 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively [12].…”

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“…The disease was more prevalent in males (78.5%) than females (21.5%) with a ratio of 3.7 to 1, as well as 55 percent in the older age group greater than 60 years old. A review study that was done for SSA documented also a higher ratio of male predominating results ranging between 1.3 -6 for males and 1 for female [6,11]. This result can be argued that males experience more to the modifiable behavioral risk factors such as smoking, alcohol use and others which lead mainly to non-communicable diseases.…”

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“…The prevalence was observed to increase 6 percent 10.5 percent with an average increase of 8.5 percent. A four year retrospective study on clinical records of ICU patients that was done in 2002 at Halibet Regional Referral Hospital Intensive Care Unit (HRRH-ICU), Asmara, Eritrea recorded an admission rate of 4.7 percent of the total admission to the respective ICU [11]. This increase is resulted due to an epidemiological shift from communicable to noncommunicable diseases which is mainly related to life style and nutritional change in the developed and developing countries.…”

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Prevalence, Presenting Complaints, Risk Factors and Comorbidity of Acute Coronary Syndrome at Orotta National Referral Hospital Intensive Care Unit Eritrea: Retrospective Study

Adgoy¹

2017

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Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) being one of the major manifestations of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, it ranks a third for all deaths above the age of 35 in developed countries. It is the principal cause of mortality globally for greater than 4.5 million people in the developing world with a relative lack of preventive measures implemented. Eighty percent of deaths due to Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) occur in developing countries. CHD rates are expected to increase in developing

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Prevalence, Presenting Complaints, Risk Factors and Comorbidity of Acute Coronary Syndrome at Orotta National Referral Hospital Intensive Care Unit Eritrea: Retrospective Study

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2017

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“…But the incidence of myocardial infarction was found to be alarming in a study done in Halibet National Referral Hospital in Asmara between 1997 and 2001that showed that the incidence of acute Myocardial infarction was 4.35 per 1000 admissions. 10 . And a retrospective study conducted in Orrota National Referral Hospital Intensive Care Unit (ONRH-ICU) in Asmara for ten years (2005-2015) by Elias...et al showed majority of patients 79% presented with STEMI which is one of the top killers' worldwide 11 .…”

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Common Causes of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department of Orotta National Referral Hospital, Asmara, Eritrea

Berhe¹,

Amanuel

2020

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BackgroundChest pain is one of the common causes of visits to the emergency department. However, there is scarcity of studies on the causes and prevalence of this common symptom in Eritrea. This retrospective descriptive study was done to determine the prevalence, causes, clinical features, demographics, diagnostic modality and outcome of all patients with the chief complaint of chest pain who presented to the ED of Orotta national referral hospital in Eritrea and the association of demographic characters, diagnostic modality, and clinical features with final diagnosis and outcome.MethodsAfter securing approval by Ministry of Health ethical and research committee, Clinical Service Division and from Orotta National Referral Hospital in Asmara Eritrea, Records of patients 15 years and older presenting with the complaint of chest pain from 1st January 2018 through 31st December 2018 were assessed. A sample of patients who presented with chest pain and did ECG were also included. All data were collected in Microsoft excel software, cleaned and then analyzed using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 20.Results855 patients presented with chest pain to the emergency department, out of which 798 patient files were retrieved. Respiratory disease was the most common cause 441(51.6%), with pneumonia the most common diagnosis 415 (94.1%) followed by cardiac cause at 234( 27.4%).Out of the study population 253 study sample were taken with inclusion criteria of those who did an ECG. In these study samples the most common cause was cardiovascular 149(58.9%) out of which the most common illness was ST elevation myocardial infarction 60(23.7%). Out of 253 patients who did electrocardiogram 230(90.9%) were discharged and 23(9.1%) died. 6(26%) of those who died were smokers and 13(56.5%) of those who died were above 69 years old.ConclusionThe main cause of chest pain was found to be respiratory disease, followed by cardiovascular disease in the population study, which was reversed in the sample study (those who did ECG). Age and Smoking were found to affect the prognosis. There were highest mortality rates in STEMI and pulmonary embolism.

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“…But the incidence of myocardial infarction was found to be alarming in a study done in Halibet National Referral Hospital in Asmara between 1997 and 2001that showed that the incidence of acute Myocardial infarction was 4.35 per 1000 admissions. 10 . And a retrospective study conducted in Orotta National Referral Hospital Intensive Care Unit (ONRH-ICU) in Asmara for ten years (2005-2015) by Elias...et al showed majority of patients 79% presented with STEMI which is one of the top killers' worldwide 11 .…”

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confidence: 99%

Common Causes of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department of Orotta National Referral Hospital, Asmara, Eritrea

Berhe¹,

Amanuel²

2020

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BackgroundChest pain is one of the common causes of visits to the emergency department. However, there is scarcity of studies on the causes and prevalence of this common symptom in Eritrea. This retrospective descriptive study was done to determine the prevalence, causes, clinical features, demographics, diagnostic modality and outcome of all patients with the chief complaint of chest pain who presented to the ED of Orotta national referral hospital in Eritrea and the association of demographic characters, diagnostic modality, and clinical features with final diagnosis and outcome.MethodsAfter securing approval by Ministry of Health ethical and research committee, Clinical Service Division and from Orotta National Referral Hospital in Asmara Eritrea, Records of patients 15 years and older presenting with the complaint of chest pain from 1st January 2018 through 31st December 2018 were assessed. Samples of patients who presented with chest pain and did ECG were also included. All data were collected in Microsoft excel software, cleaned and then analyzed using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 20.Results855 patients presented with chest pain to the emergency department, out of which 798 patient files were retrieved. Respiratory disease was the most common cause 441(51.6%), with pneumonia the most common diagnosis 415 (94.1%) followed by cardiac cause at 234( 27.4%).Out of the study population 253 study sample were taken with inclusion criteria of those who did an ECG. In these study samples the most common cause was cardiovascular 149(58.9%) out of which the most common illness was ST elevation myocardial infarction 60(23.7%). Out of 253 patients who did electrocardiogram 230(90.9%) were discharged and 23(9.1%) died. 6(26%) of those who died were smokers and 13(56.5%) of those who died were above 69 years old.ConclusionThe main cause of chest pain was found to be respiratory disease, followed by cardiovascular disease in the population study, which was reversed in the sample study (those who did ECG). Age and Smoking were found to affect the prognosis. There were highest mortality rates in STEMI and pulmonary embolism.

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Clinical features of acute myocardial infarction: A report from Halibet Referral Hospital in Eritrea

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Prevalence, Presenting Complaints, Risk Factors and Comorbidity of Acute Coronary Syndrome at Orotta National Referral Hospital Intensive Care Unit Eritrea: Retrospective Study

Prevalence, Presenting Complaints, Risk Factors and Comorbidity of Acute Coronary Syndrome at Orotta National Referral Hospital Intensive Care Unit Eritrea: Retrospective Study

Common Causes of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department of Orotta National Referral Hospital, Asmara, Eritrea

Common Causes of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department of Orotta National Referral Hospital, Asmara, Eritrea

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