Open AccessHealth‐Related Quality of Life and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Survivors of Left‐Sided Native Valve Endocarditis
Author(s) -
Dominique W M Verhagen,
Jeroen Hermanides,
Joke C. Korevaar,
Patrick M. Bossuyt,
R. B. A. van den Brink,
Peter Speelman,
J.T.M. van der Meer
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/598930
Subject(s) - medicine , endocarditis , quality of life (healthcare) , heart failure , infective endocarditis , prospective cohort study , pediatrics , physical therapy , nursing
The long-term prognosis of endocarditis is described primarily in relation to clinical outcome measures-for example, such complications as cerebrovascular accident, cardiac failure, need for cardiac surgery, relapse rate, and mortality. To our knowledge, to date, no studies have examined the health-related quality of life and the prevalence of long-term persistence of physical symptoms for survivors of left-sided native valve endocarditis.