Does heart failure complicating acute coronary syndromes impact hospital and 6-month survival?
Heart failure complicating acute coronary syndromes is a significant negative prognostic factor for both in-hospital and 6-month survival, regardless of necrosis marker levels.
In this observational registry, heart failure was associated with reduced hospital and 6-month survival across all ACS subsets, including patients with normal markers of necrosis. More aggressive treatment of these patients may be warranted to improve prognosis.
Steg et al. (2004) studied this question.