Pertti Loponen

Summary

Affiliation: University of Helsinki
Country: Finland

Publications

  1. ncbi Quality of life during 18 months after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 32:77-82. 2007
  2. ncbi EuroSCORE predicts health-related quality of life after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, 65100 Vaasa, Finland
    Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 7:564-8. 2008
  3. ncbi Postoperative delirium and health related quality of life after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Scand Cardiovasc J 42:337-44. 2008
  4. ncbi HRQoL after coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Scand Cardiovasc J 43:94-9. 2009
  5. ncbi Miniaturized versus conventional cardiopulmonary bypass in high-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery
    Simo Pekka Koivisto
    Department of Anesthesiology, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Perfusion 25:65-70. 2010
  6. ncbi Is it possible to improve the accuracy of EuroSCORE?
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 36:799-804. 2009
  7. ncbi Coronary artery bypass surgery in octogenarians: long-term outcome can be better than expected
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Ann Thorac Surg 89:1119-24. 2010
  8. ncbi Pulmonary function and immediate outcome of patients undergoing aortic valve replacement
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    J Heart Valve Dis 18:374-9. 2009
  9. ncbi Repeat intervention after invasive treatment of coronary arteries
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 35:43-7. 2009
  10. ncbi Safe time limits of aortic cross-clamping and cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Perfusion 24:297-305. 2009

Collaborators

  • Fausto Biancari
  • Salvatore Giordano
  • Juha Nissinen
  • Jan Ola Wistbacka
  • Matti Tarkka
  • Kari Teittinen
  • Simo Pekka Koivisto
  • Pekka Tarkiainen
  • Markku Virkkilä
  • Kari Korpilahti
  • Riikka Rimpiläinen
  • Timo Peltola
  • Risto Niemi

Detail Information

Publications11

  1. ncbi Quality of life during 18 months after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 32:77-82. 2007
    ..The aim of the present study was to evaluate the change in health related quality of life (HRQoL) among elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients...
  2. ncbi EuroSCORE predicts health-related quality of life after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, 65100 Vaasa, Finland
    Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 7:564-8. 2008
    ..7% of patients with EuroSCORE 0-3 and 30.1% of patients with a score >3 (P=0.006) improved clinically. The present study showed that the EuroSCORE also predicts long-term HRQoL after CABG...
  3. ncbi Postoperative delirium and health related quality of life after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Scand Cardiovasc J 42:337-44. 2008
    ..We wanted to identify determinants for postoperative delirium and its influence on health related quality of life (HRQoL) during 36-month follow-up of coronary artery bypass (CABG) patients...
  4. ncbi HRQoL after coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Scand Cardiovasc J 43:94-9. 2009
    ..The study was non-randomized. CABG group consisted of 240 patients and 229 patients were treated with PCI. HRQoL was measured prospectively by the 15D instrument...
  5. ncbi Miniaturized versus conventional cardiopulmonary bypass in high-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery
    Simo Pekka Koivisto
    Department of Anesthesiology, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Perfusion 25:65-70. 2010
    ....
  6. ncbi Is it possible to improve the accuracy of EuroSCORE?
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 36:799-804. 2009
    ..We derived a new risk-scoring method by modifying some of the risk factors included in the EuroSCORE algorithm...
  7. ncbi Coronary artery bypass surgery in octogenarians: long-term outcome can be better than expected
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Ann Thorac Surg 89:1119-24. 2010
    ..We have reviewed our experience with octogenarians undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting...
  8. ncbi Pulmonary function and immediate outcome of patients undergoing aortic valve replacement
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    J Heart Valve Dis 18:374-9. 2009
    ..The study aim was to evaluate whether pulmonary function, as assessed by spirometry, affects immediate outcome after aortic valve replacement (AVR)...
  9. ncbi Repeat intervention after invasive treatment of coronary arteries
    Pertti Loponen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 35:43-7. 2009
    ..Patients who undergo successful revascularisation either with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may subsequently require repeat invasive procedures...
  10. ncbi Safe time limits of aortic cross-clamping and cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery
    Juha Nissinen
    Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
    Perfusion 24:297-305. 2009
    ..We evaluated the impact of aortic cross-clamping time (XCT) and cardiopulmonary bypass time (CPBT) on the immediate and late outcome after adult cardiac surgery and attempted to identify their safe time limits...
  11. ncbi Preoperative haemodynamic parameters and the immediate outcome after open repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms
    Salvatore Giordano
    Department of Surgery, Vaasa Central Hospital, 65130 Vaasa, Finland
    Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 9:491-3. 2009
    ..The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of preoperative cardiac function and haemodynamic parameters on the immediate outcome after repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA)...