Open-heart surgery in patients with acquired heart defects over 80 years: long-term results, quality of life

Aggressive medical and surgical interventions have not been clearly demonstrated to improve survival in neonates with trisomy 18; there are no data that demonstrates improved quality of life for these children after these interventions; and these interventions are clearly associated with significant morbidity, resource allocation, and cost.

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Open Heart Surgery in the Octogenarians - a Study on Long-Term Survival and Quality of Life

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon ◽

10.1055/s-2007-1013225 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 43 (05) ◽

pp. 265-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

A. Diegeler ◽

R. Autschbach ◽

V. Falk ◽

Th. Walther ◽

J. Gummert ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart ◽

Term Survival ◽

Long Term Survival

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Open heart surgery and repair of complex abdominal aortic aneurysms – early and long-term results of a simultaneous approach

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon ◽

10.1055/s-2007-967411 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 55 (S 1) ◽

Author(s):

A Rastan ◽

M Luduena ◽

R Battelini ◽

T Walther ◽

J Kempfert ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart Surgery ◽

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms ◽

Aortic Aneurysms ◽

Long Term Results ◽

Open Heart ◽

Simultaneous Approach ◽

Abdominal Aortic

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Short and Long-term Results of Open Heart Surgery in Aortic Valve Disease

Korean Circulation Journal ◽

10.4070/kcj.1998.28.9.1509 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 28 (9) ◽

pp. 1509 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hyun-Sook Kim ◽

Jae-Kwan Song ◽

Jae-Hwan Lee ◽

Young-Hak Kim ◽

Min-Kyu Kim ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Aortic Valve ◽

Aortic Valve Disease ◽

Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart Surgery ◽

Valve Disease ◽

Long Term Results ◽

Open Heart ◽

Short And Long Term

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Health-Related Quality of Life after Open-Heart Surgery

The Journal of Pediatrics ◽

10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.10.022 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 164 (2) ◽

pp. 254-258.e1 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Helene Werner ◽

Beatrice Latal ◽

Emanuela Valsangiacomo Buechel ◽

Ingrid Beck ◽

Markus A. Landolt

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart ◽

Health Related Quality ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related

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Quality of Life in Octogenarians After Open Heart Surgery

CHEST Journal ◽

10.1378/chest.108.4.919 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 108 (4) ◽

pp. 919-926 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Pankaj Kumar ◽

Kenton J. Zehr ◽

Andrew Chang ◽

Duke E. Cameron ◽

William A. Baumgartner

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart Surgery ◽

Open Heart

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Open heart surgery patients’ education. a source of anxiety?

Health & Research Journal ◽

10.12681/healthresj.19278 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Olga Kadda

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Heart Surgery ◽

Recovery Period ◽

Open Heart Surgery ◽

Main Idea ◽

Treatment Compliance ◽

Psychological Status ◽

Open Heart

In recent years the interest of health care professionals has focused on the process of patient pre and post operative education and in what way the psychological status is affected. They particularly emphasized the need to design effective and individualized trainings programs which concern preoperative and postoperative information, cardiac rehabilitation after open heart surgery so as to enhance patient’s comfort and anxiety reduction.The main idea of the programme is to change patient’s behaviour regarding modifiable risk factors and improve their quality of life. Moreover, the aim of the individual educational programme is to understand the surgical procedure, complications may occur, maintaining treatment compliance at a high level, the improvement of psychological status and quality of life not only for the patient but for its family too.Cardiac surgery is a very difficult process that causes a lot of stress and one of the most important nurse’s roles is to provide information and patient support throughout their recovery period.

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