Symptom experiences of patients after cardiac valve surgery: A qualitative study

• Jiajia Ban ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiajia Ban, Yuexiu Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

  Current Address: School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 138 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, China; Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  Affiliations School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0568-5851

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• Yuexiu Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiajia Ban, Yuexiu Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Hong Huang ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Current Address: School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 138 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, China; Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Ping Zhang ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Shan Dong ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Yujie Zhou ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Day Chemotherapy Ward，Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Ling Yuan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yuanling@njglyy.com (LY); sumaomao66@163.com (YS)

  Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1692-264X

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• Yunyan Su

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7208-6163

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