Mid-term Survival and Quality of Life of Elderly Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Quality of Life

Treatments: Other: No intervention in this study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01654900

Heart90-HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purposes of the investigators study is to examine the overall survival and quality of life in elderly patients (> 75 years) undergoing open heart surgery at Hadassah medical center between 2008-2011. All alive patients will be phone interviewed using the 36-item short form health survey. Results will be compared to similar health survey results (36-SF)obtained from a group of Israeli adults who had no open heart surgery (controlled group). The investigators hypothesize that elderly patients achieve improvement in quality of life after open heart surgery with acceptable operative morbidity and mortality.

Enrollment: 207 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all patients age > 75 years who discharged alive after surgery

Exclusion criteria

• death

Trial design

207 participants in 1 patient group

Patients age >75 y who underwent open hear surgeary

Description:

The cohort study consist of all patients \> 75 y, undergoing open heart surgery between 2008-2011 at Hadassah medical center.

Treatment:

Other: No intervention in this study