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Age does not limit quality of life improvement in cardiac valve surgery

Artyom Sedrakyan, MD^*, Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, A. David Paltiel, PhD^*, John A. Elefteriades, MD, FACC, Jennifer A. Mattera, MPH, Sarah A. Roumanis, RN, Zhenqiu Lin, PhD and Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, FACC^*||,*

^* Division of Health Policy and Administration, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, and Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
^|| Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Quality of life (QOL) values with 95% confidence intervals in the 64-year age group (combined mitral and aortic patients). Open boxes = pre-operative QOL scores; open circles = 18-month follow-up QOL scores; closed triangles = U.S. population QOL norms for the 64-year age group. BP = bodily pain; GH = general health; MCS = mental component summary; MH = mental health; PCS = physical component summary; PF = physical functioning; RE = role emotional; RP = role physical; SF = social functioning; VT = vitality.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Quality of life (QOL) values with 95% confidence intervals in the 65- to 74-year age group (combined mitral and aortic patients). Open boxes = pre-operative QOL scores; open circles = 18-month follow-up QOL scores; closed triangles = U.S. population norms for the 65- to 74-year age group. BP = bodily pain; GH = general health; MCS = mental component summary; MH = mental health; PCS = physical component summary; PF = physical functioning; RE = role emotional; RP = role physical; SF = social functioning; VT = vitality.

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Quality of life (QOL) values with 95% confidence intervals in the 75-year age group (combined mitral and aortic patients). Open boxes = pre-operative QOL scores; open circles = 18-month follow-up QOL scores; closed triangles = U.S. population norms for the 75-year age group. BP = bodily pain; GH = general health; MCS = mental component summary; MH = mental health; PCS = physical component summary; PF = physical functioning; RE = role emotional; RP = role physical; SF = social functioning; VT = vitality.