Title
Patient-reported quality of life and echocardiographic recovery after coronary angioplasty: A prospective questionnaire-based study
Authors
Sanathraj Patlu Devaraj1, Moha Merazul Ashekin2, Bhawana Birud3, Amina Misbah4 & Saravenensandeep V Pathmanathan5,*
Affiliation
1Department of Medicine, Bangalore hospital, Kengeri, Karnataka, India; 2Department of Internal Medicine, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 3Department of Physiology, NKP Salve Institute of Medical sciences & RC and LMH, Nagpur, India; 4Department of EmergenMedicine and Internal Medicine, DHA, Aster Medcity, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 5Department of Orthopedics, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta; *Corresponding author
Sanathraj Patlu Devaraj - E-mail: drsanathraj@gmail.com; Phone: +91 8105756583
Moha Merazul Ashekin - E-mail: ashekinmerazul@gmail.com
Bhawana Birud - E-mail: bhavanawarade@gmail.com
Amina Misbah - E-mail: amisafi95@yahoo.com; Phone: 00971505173232
Saravenensandeep V Pathmanathan - E-mail: saravenensandeep@outlook.com
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received April 1, 2026; Revised April 30, 2026; Accepted April 30, 2026, Published April 30, 2026
Abstract
Despite widespread use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), post-procedural follow-up primarily emphasizes imaging outcomes while patient-reported quality of life (QoL) remains under-integrated into recovery assessment. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate 120 patients undergoing elective angioplasty and examined the association between longitudinal QoL scores and echocardiographic recovery at 6 and 12 months. Mean QoL improved from 62.3 ± 14.5 at baseline to 78.5 ± 12.3 at 12 months (p < 0.001), alongside significant improvements in left ventricular ejection fraction, global longitudinal strain and wall motion score index (p < 0.001). Improvement in QoL demonstrated a moderate positive correlation with change in LVEF (r = 0.46) and an inverse correlation with WMSI improvement (r = –0.38). Thus, we show that subjective recovery parallels objective ventricular improvement and support integration of structured QoL assessment into routine post-angioplasty care.
Keywords
Quality of life (QoL); angioplasty; echocardiography; patient-reported outcomes (PRO); survey
Citation
Devaraj et al. Bioinformation 22(4): 1919-1923 (2026)
Edited by
A Prashanth
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
