Qualidade de vida após revascularização cirúrgica do miocárdio, angioplastia ou tratamento clínico

Abstract

Improvement was observed in all domains and in the three therapeutic modalities. Comparatively, surgery had provided a better quality of life after a four-year follow-up.

Qualidade de vida em pacientes com doença ateroclerótica coronariana grave e estável

“…The values observed in the present study are similar to those observed by other national authors that evaluated patients with CAD 1 . The item physical aspects showed to be especially impaired, with 50.0% of the patients presenting a score < 50.…”

“…Studies have shown a higher incidence of cardiovascular events among the population with depressive symptoms or low scores of quality of life (QoL) indicators. Additionally, patients with established coronary artery disease (CAD) present QoL impairment and high levels of stress, caused by the disease itself, physical limitation and risk of death, closing a vicious circle that intensifies the disease progression [1][2][3][4] . It is believed that, in addition to disease severity, the association of comorbidities, such as diabetes mellitus (DM), arterial hypertension (AH) and obesity, frequently Another study 13 showed that women older than 65 years with symptoms of depression presented an unfavorable clinical evolution, with worse prognosis, six months after a cardiovascular event.…”

Qualidade de Vida de pacientes submetidos à revascularização do miocárdio

“…A previous study reported that heart failure is associated with impairment of physical functioning performance, translated by reports of seniors on limitations in daily activities, inability to work and to establish social relationships, as well as loss of independence. (17) Functional independence is defined as the ability to do something with one's own means and is associated with mobility and physical functioning, when the individual does not require help to perform activities of daily living. Thus, a satisfactory Quality of life can be interpreted as the ability to successfully fulfill the basic daily functions, feel good and live independently.…”

Preditores de mortalidade em pacientes acima de 70 anos na revascularização miocárdica ou troca valvar com circulação extracorpórea

“…Thus, the incidence of cardiovascular disease also increases, which results in our midst, in a high incidence of MI prior to surgery [11]. Once stated the surgical procedure, the added technology and care before, during and after the surgery, lead best outcome for elderly patients who require highly complex cardiovascular intervention, either to improve the quality or life expectancy [12] .…”