Introduction:

Cardiovascular diseases are a serious health problem worldwide. Ischemic Cardiopathy represents a high percentage of this problem, and Cuba is not excluded.

Objective:

To characterize patients who died after Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Intensive Coronary Care Unit of the Clinical-Surgical Hospital "Comandante Manuel Fajardo" in the period from June 2009 to March 2017.

Material and Methods:

Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study with a universe of 50 patients who died of acute myocardial infarction.

Results:

The mean age was 62.6 ± 7 years. The anterior myocardial infarction predominated (76%), together with patients classified according to Killip-Kimball III-IV criteria that also had low TIMI risk (68% and a 40%, respectively). 56% of the universe of patients was not thrombosed, and cardiogenic shock (40%) was confirmed as the most common complication.

Conclusions:

Patients with anterior myocardial infarction and Killip-Kimbal III-IV classification predominated in the study, without statistically significant association between these two variables. Most patients were not thrombosed and they were the ones who presented cardiogenic shock as a complication, although these variables also showed no statistically significant association.

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