Objectives: To report the 6-month longitudinal outcomes of routine depression screening in cardiac patients.
Methods: Routine depression screening consisted of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) administered 30-days after cardiac surgery at the Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia. Complete data was obtained on 481 patients who were subdivided into three groups; depressed-cardiac control determined by current anti-depressant use or history of depression in medical records (n=90), depression screen-positives (PHQ≥10, n=46) and depression screen-negatives (PHQ≤9, n=345).
Objective: To determine the extent to which differences in generic quality of life (QOL) between transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) patients explained by EuroSCORE and heart-team operability assessment.
Methods: A total of 146 high-risk patients with EuroSCORE > 6 and aged ≥ 75 years underwent TAVI (n = 80) or aortic valve replacement (n = 66) between February 2010 and July 2013. A total of 75 patients also completed preoperative and six month SF-12 QOL measures.
Objective: The goal of this study was to examine a possible clinical association between Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy (FED) and glaucoma suspect (GS)/ocular hypertension (OHT) or open angle glaucoma (OAG).
Methods: A retrospective chart review was carried out using data from electronic medical records and paper records from a private ophthalmology clinic in Kansas City, MO, USA. The review included 257 patients with FED and 584 randomly selected controls with no history of endothelial dystrophy.