Quality of life and the venous function of the lower limb after harvest of autologous external iliac vein grafts: a clinical follow-up study

Surgery Today ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 1254-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Kaneoka ◽  
Atsuyuki Maeda ◽  
Masayuki Sugimoto ◽  
Masatoshi Isogai ◽  
Hiroyuki Ishibashi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Iliac Vein ◽  
Vein Grafts ◽  
External Iliac Vein ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Venous Function

scholarly journals Endovascular Treatment of Pelvic Congestion Syndrome: Visual Analog Scale Follow-Up

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin Senechal ◽  
Perrine Echegut ◽  
Marine Bravetti ◽  
Marie Florin ◽  
Lamia Jarboui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Iliac Vein ◽  
Pelvic Vein ◽  
Internal Iliac Vein ◽  
Internal Iliac ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pelvic Congestion

Purpose: To evaluate medium-term clinical outcomes of transcatheter embolization and stenting in women with several pelvic venous disorders responsible for chronic pelvic pain and varicose veins of the lower limbs.Materials and Methods: The study population included 327 consecutively recruited patients referred to the interventional radiology unit from January 2014 to December 2019 due to chronic pelvic congestion (91; 27.83%), lower limb varices (15; 4.59%), or a combination of both the symptoms (221; 67.58%). Preprocedural pelvic, transvaginal Doppler ultrasound (US), and MRI were conducted in all the patients and revealed anatomical varicosities and incompetent pelvic veins in 312 patients. In all the patients, selective catheterization demonstrated uterine venous engorgement, ovarian plexus congestion, or pelvic vein filling. Retrograde flow was detected on catheter venography in the left ovarian vein (250; 78%), the right ovarian vein (85; 26%), the left internal iliac vein (222; 68%), and the right internal iliac vein (185; 57%). Patients were followed-up at 1, 6, and 12 months, and years thereafter systematically by the referring angiologist and the interventional radiologist of center. They were contacted by telephone in November and December 2020 to assess pain perception and quality of life by using the visual analog scales from 0 to 10 with assessments made at the baseline and last follow-up. Of the 327 patients (mean age, 42 ± 12 years), 312 patients were suffering from pelvic congestion syndrome and 236 patients was suffering from lower limb varices. All underwent embolization by using ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (Onyx®). Eighty-five right ovarian veins, 249 left ovarian veins, 510 tributaries of the right internal iliac vein, and 624 tributaries of the left internal iliac vein were embolized. A cohort of patients also underwent nutcracker syndrome angioplasty (6.7%) and May–Thurner syndrome angioplasty (14%) with a stent placement.Results: The initial technical success rate was 80.9% for embolization of pathological veins and 100% for stenting of stenoses. Overall, 307 patients attended 12-month follow-up visits and 288 (82%) patients completed the telephone survey at mean 39 (±18)-month postintervention. Main pelvic pain significantly improved from 6.9 (±2.4) pre- to 2.0 (±2.4) postembolization (p < 0.001), as did specific symptoms in each category. Improvement or disappearance of pain was achieved in 266/288 (92.36%) patients with improved quality of life in 276/288 (95.8%) patients. There were 16 minor and 4 major adverse events reported on the follow-up.Conclusion: Pelvic vein embolization (Onyx®) is an effective and safe procedure with high clinical success and quality of life improvement rates.

scholarly journals Religiousness and Quality of Life Among Older Adults of Different Ethnic Groups in Malaysia: A Five-Year Follow-up Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Min Tan ◽  
Daniel D. Reidpath ◽  
Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting ◽  
Pascale Allotey ◽  
Tin Tin Su
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Follow Up Study

scholarly journals Quality of life after volar locked plating: a 10-year follow-up study of patients with intra-articular distal radius fractures

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ruckenstuhl ◽  
Gerwin A Bernhardt ◽  
Patrick Sadoghi ◽  
Mathias Glehr ◽  
Lukas A Holzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Distal Radius ◽  
Distal Radius Fractures ◽  
Radius Fractures ◽  
Locked Plating ◽  
Follow Up Study

scholarly journals Health-related quality of life after vertebral or hip fracture: a seven-year follow-up study

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Hallberg ◽  
Margareta Bachrach-Lindström ◽  
Staffan Hammerby ◽  
Göran Toss ◽  
Anna-Christina Ek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Hip Fracture ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Potential Predictors of Quality of Life in Patients with Stroke: A Follow-Up Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (10) ◽  
pp. e94
Author(s):  
Tzu-Ling Chang ◽  
Chia-Ling Chen ◽  
Chia-ying Chong
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Follow Up Study
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