• Am J Emerg Med · Jun 2021

    Prognostic value of admission serum magnesium in acute myocardial infarction complicated by malignant ventricular arrhythmias.

    • Yoshifumi Mizuguchi, Takao Konishi, Toshiyuki Nagai, Tomoya Sato, Sakae Takenaka, Atsushi Tada, Yuta Kobayashi, Hirokazu Komoriyama, Yoshiya Kato, Kazunori Omote, Takuma Sato, Kiwamu Kamiya, Shingo Tsujinaga, Hiroyuki Iwano, Kenjiro Kikuchi, Shinya Tanaka, and Toshihisa Anzai.
    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Jun 1; 44: 100-105.

    ObjectivesAlthough electrolyte abnormalities are related to worse clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), little is known about the association between admission serum magnesium level and adverse events in AMI patients complicated by out-of-hospital cardiac arrest presenting with malignant ventricular arrhythmias (OHCA-MVA). We investigated the prognostic value of serum magnesium level on admission in these patients.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed the data of 165 consecutive reperfused AMI patients complicated with OHCA-MVA between April 2007 and February 2020 in our university hospital. Serum magnesium concentration was measured on admission. The primary outcome was in-hospital death.ResultsFifty-four patients (33%) died during hospitalization. Higher serum magnesium level was significantly related to in-hospital death (Fine & Gray's test; p < 0.001). In multivariable logistic regression analyses, serum magnesium level on admission was independently associated with in-hospital death (hazard ratio 2.68, 95% confidence interval 1.24-5.80) even after adjustment for covariates. Furthermore, the incidences of cardiogenic shock necessitating an intra-aortic balloon pump (p = 0.005) or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (p < 0.001), tracheal intubation (p < 0.001) and persistent vegetative state (p = 0.002) were significantly higher in patients with higher serum magnesium level than in those with lower serum magnesium level.ConclusionsIn reperfused AMI patients complicated by OHCA-MVA, admission serum magnesium level might be a potential surrogate marker for predicting in-hospital death.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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