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L Collarini

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PubMed1997

Heart surgery and quality of life: a prospective study on ischemic patients.

OBJECTIVE: Recently, an interest has developed in the use of quality of life instruments to provide a more comprehensive assessment of the impact of disease and treatments on patients' everyday lives over time, particularly in the cardiovascular field. To evaluate changes in quality of life of patients with a coronary heart disease and undergoing heart surgery and to identify patients on which to concentrate stronger rehabilitative intervention, an observational prospective study with repeated measurements has been designed. METHODS: A total of 259 consecutive coronary heart disease patients (211 males, 48 females, aged 63 (S.D., 9 years) are included into the study. Quality of life has been assessed by means of Karnofsky Performance Status Scale and Nottingham Health Profile (6 dimensions of quality of life) preoperatively, at 2 and 6 months. Changes in quality of life scores at short and mid term and the influence of possible predictors have been investigated. Separate scores have been considered for each dimension of quality of life as well as a global statistics accounting for the multidimensionality of quality of life. RESULTS: Quality of life increased by 57, 64, 72, 52, 23, 44 and 56% for Karnofsky Performance Status Scale, energy, pain, emotion, sleep, social and mobility respectively at 2 months; at 6 months a further increase of 18% in sleep only occurred. Global scores appeared to be significantly influenced by sex, age class, preoperative NYHA, type of angina, associated procedure and complication at surgery. CONCLUSIONS: The increase of quality of life concentrates mainly at an early stage of post-operative period. The preoperative factors tested, allow to stratify patients based on quality of life and to identify those on which to concentrate stronger rehabilitative intervention.

Coronary Artery Bypass↗
PubMed1981

[Dynamic electrocardiography for identification of temporally altered activity in pacemakers (author's transl)].

Four cases of subjects with implanted pacemakers are reported. The patients temporarily presented suspected symptoms of altered activity of the pacemakers. On the other hand usual tests demonstrated a regular activity of the pacemakers. The dynamic electrocardiography, by a regular registration during 24/48 hours and during usual working, documented; once a partial hole in the circuits of the generator, twice a partial break of the catheter, once a displacement. It is underlined the importance of dynamic electrocardiography to identify temporarily altered activity of pacemakers, undiagnosticable by disposable usual tests.

Aged↗
PubMed1980

[Human cytomegalovirus and congestive cardiomyopathy (author's transl)].

Congestive cardiomyopathy in 3 cases, in which occurrence of human Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection was demonstrated, is described. In all cases significant rise in total CMV antibodies and in early antigen-antibodies was found: CMV was also isolated from urine and saliva in one, a 13 years old boy, and only from urine in the others two patients, 20 and 26 old men. Immunoglobulin M was raised only in the first case, in which CMV infection was likely in act: instead in the others two CMV infection was late primary or recurrent. The possibility of CMV infection as etiological agent of dilatative cardiomyopathy with congestive heart failure in this 3 cases is, in our opinion, strongly suggestive.

Adolescent↗