Health-Related Quality of Life and Functional Outcome in Cardiac Surgical Patients Aged 80 Years and Older: A Prospective Single Center Study

Abstract

Physical HrQoL is significantly improved in octogenarians three months after cardiac surgery remaining stable at one year postoperatively when compared to baseline.

Cardiac reoperations in octogenarians: Do they really benefit?

“…Similar results regarding the postoperative level of independence were reported by Fruitman et al ., Zingone et al . and the already cited publication of Deutsch et al …”

“…Deutsch et al . carried out a prospective trial analyzing QOL of octogenarians undergoing elective primary cardiac procedures . Enrolled patients completed the SF‐36 questionnaire preoperatively, 3 months and 12 months postoperatively.…”

“…In 2013, almost 14% of all patients in Germany who underwent open‐heart surgery were older than 80 years . Although operative outcomes and the long‐term benefit of first‐time cardiac procedures in this population subgroup are well documented, the fate of octogenarians after redo‐procedures is poorly investigated …”

Non‐elective cardiac surgery in octogenarians: Do these patients benefit in terms of clinical outcomes and quality of life?

“…Most recently, Deutsch et al . could show in a prospective study of 106 octogenarians undergoing elective open‐heart surgery that the QOL of the survivors significantly improved 3 months postoperatively compared with baseline, and remained stable 1 year postoperatively …”

Minimally invasive thoracoscopically-guided right minithoracotomy versus conventional sternotomy for mitral valve repair

“…One recent publication (13) reports a small variation (standard deviation (SD) of 8) in SF-36 physical function scores; this is not seen in other publications (11,55) who report a SD of 30. We have therefore used the more conservative estimate to inform the power calculation for this trial.…”