Key result
Psychiatric disorders and restrictive living environments correlate with worse QoL in CTEPH patients post-BPA.
Why the study?
Do living environment factors affect quality of life in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after completion of balloon pulmonary angioplasty?
Cross-Sectional (n=22)
No
Do living environment factors affect quality of life in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after completion of balloon pulmonary angioplasty?
In patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who have completed balloon pulmonary angioplasty, a living environment that is difficult to walk around is associated with worse quality of life, highlighting the need for multidisciplinary care.
Living environment barriers were associated with worse QoL post-BPA in CTEPH; hypothesis-generating for targeted multidisciplinary interventions.
A living environment that was difficult to walk around was associated with a worse QoL. A multidisciplinary approach will be required to improve QoL even after completion of BPA treatment.
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Morimoto et al. (2021) conducted a cross-sectional in Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) (n=22). Living environment factors and psychiatric disorders vs. Favorable living environment / absence of psychiatric disorders was evaluated on Correlation between clinical/environmental factors and EQ-5D quality of life scores (r=-0.6865 (psychiatric disorders), p=<0.01). Psychiatric disorders (r=-0.6865) and living environment factors that make it difficult to go out were significantly correlated with worse quality of life in patients with CTEPH after completing balloon pulmonary angioplasty.
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