PMID: 18416167Apr 18, 2008Paper

Quality of life in patients after restorative operations

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M P ZakharashL G Zavernyĭ

Abstract

The analysis of the results of the surgical treatment of colon cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, polyposis of colon, diverticular disease of colon on the bases of quality of life scale indexes, questionnaire SF-36 was carried out. The authors have compared the quality of life of patients who underwent surgical treatment using restorative operations after removing functional parts of the colon. The quality of life indexes in 11-12 days after the operation were higher in the first group compared with the second one. Positive influence of laparascopic intervention on quality of life considerably differs from that in the second group in 3 and 6 months and in one and three years after the operation was done.

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