Caregiver Comorbidities and Anxiety are Related to Caregiver Quality of Life: Findings from the Sustaining QualIty of Life of the Aged: HT or MCS Study

Involvement of caregivers (CGs) is crucial to successful outcomes of patients (PTs) awaiting heart transplantation (HT) and scheduled for durable mechanical circulatory support (MCS). Importantly, CG quality of life (QOL) may be impacted by providing care for older PTs with advanced heart failure (HF) awaiting these surgeries. We sought to identify both PT and CG factors related to QOL for CGs providing care to pts (60-80 years old (yo)) awaiting HT (with and without MCS) and destination therapy (DT) MCS.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 31, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: M.G. Petty, X. Yao, A. Andrei, A. Warzecha, A. Kao, E. Hsich, M. Dew, R. Kormos, D. Pham, C. Yancy, S. LaRue, W. Cotts, S.V. Pamboukian, F. Pagani, B. Lamnpert, M.R. Johnson, M. Murray, K. Tekeda, M. Yusefpolskaya, S. Silvestry, J. Spertus, J.K. Kirklin, Tags: (204) Source Type: research