Life expectancy and quality of life in adult patients with congenital heart disease.
Ital Heart J
; 3(6): 339-47, 2002 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-12116797
ABSTRACT
The survival and quality of life of patients with congenital heart disease have significantly improved in the last 20 years. This is due to more effective medical and surgical care. The new community of grown-up congenital heart patients consists of a few natural survivors with trivial congenital lesions or very rare complex cardiac abnormalities which are naturally compensated, and of more than 75% of patients who had been submitted to cardiac surgery during infancy or childhood. Clinical follow-up is however mandatory for many of them with scheduled times and types of exams to control the effects of sequelae and late complications, and to prevent deterioration and premature death because cardiac surgery may not have resulted in normality. Moreover, these patients have many needs and even more, many questions. Not giving a correct answer to each specific question reduces the entity of surgical success.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Qualidade de Vida
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Expectativa de Vida
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Cardiopatias Congênitas
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ital Heart J
Assunto da revista:
CARDIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2002
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália