Quality of life and functional limitations after pulmonary embolism and its prognostic relevance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While the importance of patients' quality of life (QoL) in chronic cardiac or pulmonary disease is uncontroversial, the burden of an acute pulmonary embolism (PE) on QoL has received little attention thus far.

Objectives

We aimed to validate the German PEmb-QoL questionnaire, identify associations between QoL and clinical/functional parameters, and investigate the prognostic relevance of QoL for long-term survival in survivors of an acute PE episode.

Patients/methods

Patients were invited for a clinical follow-up visit including assessment of QoL using the German PEmb-QoL questionnaire 6 months after an objectively confirmed PE at a single center. Internal consistency reliability, construct-related validity, and regressions between PEmb-QoL and clinical pat

SUBMITTER: Keller K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6900046 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature