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

NCT01654900 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 207

Last updated 2012-08-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Quality of Life

Interventions

OTHER

No intervention in this study

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hadassah Medical Organization

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Oz Shapira, MD · Hadassah Medical Organization

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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