ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

Objective: This descriptive case series study evaluates the frequency ofhypomagnesemia in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Patients and methods: Thismultidisciplinary conducted at Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad and a private hospitalHyderabad from May 2010 to October 2010. All patients diagnosed as acute myocardialinfarction were further evaluated for type of myocardial infarction and serum magnesium level.Results: Out of 100 diabetic patients, 77 were males and 23 patients were females. The meanage and standard deviation of patients of male and female was 54.78 ± 8.82 (SD) and 53.64 ±10.82 (SD), respectively. The mean ± SD for serum magnesium in overall subjects was 1.24±0.48. Regarding the type of AMI inferior wall in 22 (29%), lateral wall in 17 (22%), anteroseptal in12 (16%), anterolateral -V1 in 07(09%), right ventricular in 10 (13%) and posterior wall in 07 (09%).The mean duration of acute MI in male and female population was 8.71±6.73 hours and17.70±14.57 hours (p<0.01) where as the mean duration of acute MI in hypomagnesemic andnormomagnesemic patient was 5.16±2.49 hours and 26.60±8.27 (p = 0.02) respectively. Themean serum magnesium level in male as well as female population was 1.32 ±0.21 mg/dl and1.46± 0.53 mg/dl p = 0.05, respectively. Regarding the hypomagnesemia in male and femalepopulation was 34(75.6%) and 16(53.3%) p=0.04, respectively. The hypomagnesemia was morepredominant in inferior 18(36.0%) and lateral 16 (32.0%) wall MI. Conclusions: Thehypomagnesemia was observed in patients with acute myocardial infarction with statisticalsignificance