Quality of life is a very new indicator about physical, psychological and social conditions of patients with chronical disease as after a medical intervention. It can be summarized as an addition of representation about incapacity, disability and suffering. 672 patients were evalvated, divided in four strata, submitted to myocardical revascularization, with coronary artery bypass graft and/or internal mammary artery, and coronary angioplasty, about physical, psychological and social conditions after the intervention. The research showed that only 5,06% of those patients referred no pleasure in living, anxiety, fear about death, pain, and tiredness.
myocardial revascularization; quality of life