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INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular diseases, including coronary disease and its complications, are the most common cause of death. Myocardial infarction is usually caused by a blood clot cosing the lumen of a coronary artery at the site of an unstable atherosclerotic plaque. MATERIAL AND METHODS: All the analyzed patients with mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were hospitalized...