WAMIF : Young Women Presenting Acute Myocardial Infarction in France

MI in elderly women seems to share the same pathophysiology than in men, especially plaque rupture associated with conventional risk factors. Therefore the questions is not solved on the pathophysiology and specific risk factors in young women whose prognosis is more severe. A complete descriptive analysis appears mandatory to understand the peculiarities, including not only morphological but also biological explorations as well. To date no systematic descriptive analysis has been performed including clinical characteristics, cardiac and extra-cardiac morphological exploration and hormonal and immunological assays, particularly in young premenopausal women presenting MI. This study will provide for the first time a complete analysis, including hormonal assays, never made in an "acute" population. The main objective of this clinical study is to systematically pool clinical, morphological and biological data of young women (\< 50 years) presenting an Acute MI and to assess their short-term (in-hospital) and mid-term (12 months) prognosis. The definition of MI is the one adopted in the Third definition published in 2012. As such an event occurs in a young patient, diagnostic and treatment may vary among centres. The incidence of such cases in each centre being low and practice inhomogeneous, no conclusion could be advanced concerning the study of associated, indeed predisposing factors. The work aims to comprehensively and systematically collect all the clinical and laboratory data and the results of the all morphological explorations carried out during the care of these young women admitted for acute MI in high-volume centres. No additional invasive act, without any direct benefit for the care of patients will be realized for research purposes. All these examinations, in particular invasive morphological, are more and more integrated in the practice of modern interventional cardiology especially for complex or infrequent situations, like this setting. They affor