Chronic postsurgical pain and quality of life after right minithoracotomy mitral valve operations.
Antonio ToscanoCristina BarberoPaolo CapuanoAndrea CostamagnaMarco PocarAnna TrompeoDaniela PaseroMauro RinaldiLuca BrazziPublished in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2022)
Right minithoracotomy approach is not burdened by a high incidence of CPSP: pain severity index was lower than 10 in more than 90% of patients. Then, in our experience, chronic pain seems not to be related to the type of perioperative analgesia adopted.
Keyphrases
- chronic pain
- pain management
- mitral valve
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- aortic valve replacement
- peritoneal dialysis
- neuropathic pain
- prognostic factors
- cardiac surgery
- patients undergoing
- risk factors
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- left atrial
- aortic valve
- patient reported outcomes
- spinal cord