Abstract:Objective To investigate the risk factors for severe multiple organ failure (MOF) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients so as to identify the high-risk patients as early as possible. Methods A retrospective study was carried out on 6674 Chinese AMI patients with a mean age of (62.94±13.63) (ranging from 18 to 101) years who were admitted in our hospital in the past 18 years (from January 1993 to June 2011). They were divided into 2 groups according to having severe MOF or not. Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the development of severe MOF with demographic and comorbidity variables. Results Of 6674 hospitalized AMI patients, 83(1.24%) progressed to MOF. The hospital mortality was significantly higher in the severe MOF group than in the Non-MOF group (49.40% vs 8.13%, P<0.001). On the basis of logistic regression analysis, age, pneumonia, cardiogenic shock and chronic renal failure were independent risk factors for severe MOF with an adjusted OR of 2.76 (95% CI: 1.26-6.03, P=0.011 for 65 to 74 years old), 4.85 (95% CI: 2.96-7.94, P<0.001 for≥75 years old), 4.27 (95% CI: 2.68-6.82, P<0.001), 2.24 (95% CI: 1.08-4.63, P=0.030), and 2.09 (95% CI: 1.09-4.01, P=0.027), respectively. Receiver-operation characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed the model had good discriminative ability [area under the curve (AUC)=0.83, 95%CI: 0.75-0.89, P<0.001). Conclusion Though MOF is less common in AMI patients, it always results in extremely poor prognosis. For high risk patients, early individual treatments for comorbidity and complication can effectively prevent the occurrence of MOF.