Patient-reported quality of life and echocardiographic recovery after coronary angioplasty: A prospective...

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.