Three-year follow-up on clinical symptoms and health-related quality of life after reduction mammaplasty

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
L Blomqvist, Y Brandberg

Abstract

The present study evaluated changes in patient health status and health-related quality of life 3 years after reduction mammaplasty. A previous investigation in the same study population of 49 women showed significant reduction of pain and subjective problems and improvement in health-related quality of life 6 and 12 months after the operation. The present article presents results on the health status and quality of life preoperatively and at 1 and 3 years after reduction mammaplasty. The same questionnaires were used regarding pain scored in six different locations (on a 10-point grading scale), subjective problems related to the size and weight of the breast (on a six-point grading scale), expectations of the operation (on a six-point grading scale), and health-related quality of life (with the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey, or Short Form-36). The 39 women who answered the questionnaire (response rate, 80 percent) scored minor nonsignificant changes in pain between the 1- and 3-year assessments, but the reduction of pain was still significant (p < 0.001) compared with preoperative scores. The same applied for the patients' subjective problems, with no statistically significant changes between the 1- ...Continue Reading

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