Effectiveness of orbital decompression for endocrine orbitopathy and impact on quality of life: A retrospective study

Introduction: The choice of dialysis modality has become an important decision that affects not only the country's health policy in the management of chronic end stage renal failure, but also the quality of life of patients and their survival. Peritoneal dialysis is an alternative for the treatment of these patients. The objective of our work is to report the epidemiological, clinical and biological results in the unit of PD, UHC of Rabat and to clarify the obstacles to the development of PD in Morocco. Material and Methods: We conducted a descriptive retrospective study in our PD unit from July 2006 to July 2017, including all patients who were in PD by choice or necessity and enrolled in the French Peritoneal Dialysis Registry (RDPLF). Results: In 10 years, 159 patients were placed in PD, with an average age of 50.44 +/- 17.42 years and a sex ratio of 1.36. The indication for placement of setting in PD was by choice in 34% of the cases, social in 52% and medical in 14% of cases. Mechanical complications were dominated by catheter migrations. Infectious complications were represented by peritonitis, caused by poor of hygiene in 42% of cases. Conclusion: The obstacles to the development of PD are the lack of knowledge of the technique by the patients, as well as the prejudices or myths about the technique.

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Accident-related neurogenic fecal incontinence: a retrospective study

10.21203/rs.2.16065/v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jie Liu ◽

Ruiling Wei ◽

Dewei Wu ◽

Hulin Chen ◽

Juan Dong ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Retrospective Study ◽

Fecal Incontinence ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Healthy Subjects ◽

Control Group ◽

Squeeze Pressure ◽

Anorectal Motility ◽

Neurogenic Fecal Incontinence

Abstract Abstract Background To evaluate the anorectal motility characteristics, the quality of life and psychological health of accident-related neurogenic fecal incontinence(ArNFI) patients. Methods A retrospective study was conducted on 26 patients with ArNFI visiting the gastrointestinal motility center of affiliated provincial hospital of Anhui medical university were collected as research objects from January 2016 to August 2019. The anorectal motility characteristics of these patients were recorded and analysed by high resolution manometry (HRM), 10 healthy subjects for the same period were recruited as the control group. The psychological characteristics of these patients and healthy subjects were compared by HAMA and HAMD scores,and their quality of life was investigated by SF36. Results Anal sphincter resting pressure in the ArNFI group was more lowwer than that of the control group (21.18± 4.68vs34.83± 14.13, P<0.05). Anorectal compliance in the ArNFI group was more lowwer than that of the control (1.41± 0.32vs4.03± 1.06, P<0.05). Maximal squeeze pressure were in the ArNFI group was also lowwer than that of the control(53.66±14.59 vs 143.95±19.82, P<0.05).HAMA ,HAMD scores of the ArNFI group in the ArNFI group were all higher than that of the control ( 21.29±2.06 vs 7.63±1.41 ;22.00±3.70 vs 8.75±1.91, respectively.all P<0.01). There were significant differences between SF36 scores of ArNFI group and the control group in the 8 dimensions of PF,RP,GH,VT,SF,RE and MH.(P<0.01) . Conclusion In patients with ArNFI,there were significantly reduced anorectal motility characteristics, increased HAMA.HAMD scores,and their life quality was obviously declined.

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Authors’ response to the letter on the article “Partial laryngectomy as salvage surgery after radiotherapy: Oncological and functional outcomes and impact on quality of life. A retrospective study of 20 cases”

European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Diseases ◽

10.1016/j.anorl.2015.04.001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 132 (6) ◽

pp. 373

Author(s):

Y. Philippe ◽

F. Espitalier ◽

N. Durand ◽

C. Ferron ◽

É. Bardet ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Retrospective Study ◽

Functional Outcomes ◽

Salvage Surgery ◽

Partial Laryngectomy

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Use of percutaneous microwave ablation for the treatment of bone tumors: a retrospective study of clinical outcomes in 47 patients

Cancer Imaging ◽

10.1186/s40644-019-0275-8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Min-hao Wu ◽

Ling-fei Xiao ◽

Fei-fei Yan ◽

Shi-Liang Chen ◽

Chong Zhang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Retrospective Study ◽

Pain Relief ◽

Microwave Ablation ◽

Bone Tumors ◽

Short Term ◽

Sf 36 ◽

Percutaneous Microwave Ablation

Abstract Objective The present study aimed to evaluate the short-term clinical performance and safety of percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) techniques for the treatment of bone tumors. Methods This single-institution retrospective study investigated 47 cases of bone tumors treated by MWA from June 2015 to June 2018. The study included 26 patients (55.3%) with benign bone tumors and 21 patients (44.7%) with malignant bone tumors. The tumors were located in the spine or sacrum (15, 31.9%), the upper extremities (6, 12.8%), the lower extremities (17, 36.2%) and the pelvis (9, 19.1%). Outcomes regarding clinical efficacy, including pain relief, quality of life, and intervention-related complications, were evaluated before and after MWA using the visual analog scale (VAS) and the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) scoring system. Results Of the 47 patients included in this study, all of them completed follow-up examinations, with a mean follow-up duration of 4.8 ± 1.6 months (range, 2–9 months). Significantly improved VAS and SF-36 scores were recorded after the initial treatment (P<0.001), suggesting that almost 100% of patients experienced pain relief and an improved quality of life following surgery. No major intervention-related complications (e.g., serious neurovascular injury or infection) occurred during or after the treatment. We recorded only three minor posttreatment complications (6.4%, 3/47), which were related to thermal injury that caused myofasciitis and affected wound healing. Conclusion In our study, the short-term efficacy of MWA was considerably favorable, with a relatively low rate of complications. Our results also showed that MWA was effective for pain relief and improved patients’ quality of life, making it a feasible treatment alternative for bone tumors.

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