title: [Postoperative long-term quality of life at present after total correction of tetralogy of Fallot].
abstract: We performed a questionnaire study in 47 patients who underwent corrective surgery for tetralogy of Fallot (TF) more than 10 years previously. To evaluate quality of life, we used well-being score advocated by Kaplan. 12 patients whose well-being score was 1.0 were in entirely good health without any complaints. Well-being score of patients averaged 0.773 with the range from 0.58 to 1.0. The patient with high RV/LV pressure ratio or large CTR tended to have a low well-being score. Grade of Lown classification did not correlate to well-being score.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical College Daini Hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Torii
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suma
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Miyawaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shiroma
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inoue
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery