Health-related quality of life after cardiac surgery – the effects of age, preoperative conditions and postoperative complications
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...Poor recovery following cardiac surgery is associated with worse HRQL [8, 10] and increased risk for adverse outcomes [8, 9, 11]....
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...[8] who characterized 16% (42/260) of patients as non-improvers in HRQL one year after cardiac surgery....
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...Other reported limitations related to assessment of HRQL after cardiac surgery include varied sample sizes, high attrition [28, 32], heterogeneity and non-validated measures [27, 28, 77], and lack of adjustment for marital status or social support [8, 25, 56, 78]....
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...Data suggest that comorbid disorders impact recovery for individuals who undergo cardiac surgery [8, 9]....
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...[31] investigated the effect of preoperative HRQoL scores on HRQoL outcome scores....
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...Patients with better pre-operative health are more likely to experience deterioration of long-term HRQOL – a trend that has also been identified by Kurfirst and co-workers.(11) Similarities in these findings suggest that our conclusions are relevant and require further research, especially regarding potential future interventions to improve outcomes....
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...A standardized procedure is used for interpreting responses given to the SF-36 questionnaire [22,23]....
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...Older patients are also given more units of red blood cell transfusion, which corresponds to a higher incidence of preoperative anemia, smaller capacity of the hematopoietic system, and a lower tolerance of postoperative hypohemoglobinaemia [10]....
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...Age is an independent factor in calculating the risk of death during cardiac surgery [3,4]....
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