Objective To explore the safety and clinical efficacy of right chest minithoracotomy for left atrial myxoma resection. Methods We retrospectively analyzed clinical data of 32 patients with left atrial myxoma resection by right chest minithoracotomy (a small incision group, 9 males, 23 females at age of 59.1±9.5 years) in our hospital from July 2011 through March 2015. Meanwhile, we selected 17 patients with left atrial myxoma treated by conventional chest median sternotomy as a control group (7 males, 10 females at age of 60.0±9.0 years). Clinical results of the two groups were compared. Results There was no statistical difference in preoperative clinical data of the patients between the two groups. All the patients were successfully operated. Patients in the small incision group had longer aortic clamping time than that in the control group. But there were shorter postoperative mechanical ventilation time (9.5±4.9 h), shorter ICU stay time (18.6 ± 6.2 h), less amount of thoracic cavity drainage 24 h after drainage (103.8±19.4 ml), lower bleeding reoperation rate (0.0), less blood transfusion after surgery (1.4±1.1U), shorter ambulation time (38.5±6.9 h), shorter hospital stay (8.1 ± 0.9 d), lower postoperative complication rate (0.0) than those of the control group (P<0.05). Conclusion Right chest minithoracotomy left atrial myxoma resection is feasible, safe and effective, is worth promoting.
Objective To explore the impact of the severity of low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) on the quality of life in patients with rectal cancer. Methods Literatures published from January 2012 to August 2020 in the Cochrane Library, PubMed, Embase, CNKI, WanFang and other databases were searched according to the search terms. Study screened, data extracted, and quality evaluated were conducted by three reviewers independently, and the RevMan 5.4 software was used for meta-analysis. Results Seven studies, involving 1 616 patients were included. Meta-analysis results showed that the functional scores (including overall health status, physiological functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning, and social functioning) of patients with major LARS were lower than those of patients with no/minor LARS (P<0.001). Except for appetite loss, the symptom score (including fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain), shortness of breath, insomnia, constipation, diarrhea, and financial difficulties of patients with major LARS were higher than those of patients with no/minor LARS (P<0.01). Conclusion Major LARS has a greater impact on the quality of life of patients after surgery than no/minor LARS.
ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of health education pathway intervention on self-care agency and health lifestyle promotion in colostomy patients. MethodsEighty-eight rectal cancer patients who had undergone colostomy were randomly divided into control group and intervention group (with 44 patients in each) between March 2012 and September 2013. The control group received conventional nursing only, while the intervention group were given health education pathway intervention besides conventional nursing. The self-care agency and health lifestyle promotion in the two groups under pre-colostomy state, one week after colostomy and two weeks after colostomy were surveyed and compared based on the exercise of self-care agency scale and the health promotion lifestyle profile. ResultsAfter health education pathway intervention, the scores of self-care agency and health lifestyle promotion in the intervention group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P<0.05), and the hospitalization expenditure was also obviously lower. Furthermore, the satisfaction degree on nursing service was significantly higher than that of the control group (P<0.05). ConclusionThe health education pathway intervention can greatly improve self-care agency and quality of life in rectal cancer patients who have undergone colostomy.
ObjectiveTo investigate the quality of life (QoL) of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) after surgery and analyze its relevant influencing factors. MethodsThe patients with DTC who underwent surgical resection in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from December 1, 2021 to October 1, 2023 were investigated through the postoperative follow-up platform and follow-up management group. The postoperative QoL of DTC patients were evaluate using the Chinese version of the Thyroid Cancer Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (THYCA-QoL) specific scale and the Chinese version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) developed a quality of life questionnaire consisting of 30 items (QLQ-C30). The higher overall average score of THYCA-QoL scale, the more clinical symptoms of patients, namely the negative QoL. The higher the EORTC QLQ-C30 overall health status score, the better QoL. In addition, multiple linear regression was used to explore the risk factors affecting the postoperative specific QoL score of DTC patients. ResultsA total of 1 076 patients’ questionnaires were collected. The EORTC QLQ-C30 overall health status score of 1 076 patients was 67±22 and the THYCA-QoL overall score was 22±13. The results of multivariate linear regression analysis showed that the early postoperative period (<6 months), male, age, without postoperative lifetime medication and without postoperative iodine-131 radiotherapy had negative effects on the overall score of THYCA-QoL scale (P<0.05), meanwhile the early postoperative period (<6 months) or later (≥12 months), without postoperative lifetime medication and without postoperative iodine-131 radiotherapy had positive effects on the overall health status score of EORTC QLQ-C30 (P<0.05). ConclusionsEORTC QLQ-C30 combined with THYCA-QoL can evaluate not only the common symptoms of cancer, but also the specific symptoms of thyroid cancer after surgery. And understanding the factors affecting the QoL of patients with thyroid cancer after surgery could provide targeted and supportive treatment and nursing for discharged patients to improve the QoL of patients with thyroid cancer after surgery.
Objective We studied the change of psychological behavior and quality of life in children with epilepsy, to explore the treatment strategy to improve their psychological behavior and quality of life. Methods Collected forty children with epilepsy from Hebei General Hospital during March 2015 to October 2015 and 40 normal children in this study. "Epilepsy patients quality of life scale", "Daily life ability scale" and "Sense of uncertainty in hospitalized patients disease scale" test were performed to the participants. The difference of daily psychological behavior ability, sense of uncertainty in illness and quality of life between the two groups were analyzed. Results The epilepsy children’s daily life ability and the quality of life are lower than normal children (P<0.05), the disease uncertainty is higher than normal children (P<0.05). Conclusion The epilepsy children had serious psychological and behavior disorders and lower life quality. Some medical intervention should be taken to alleviate the psychological burden, improve the ability of daily life, reduce the uncertainty in illness, and comprehensively improve the quality of life of children with epilepsy.
Abstract： Quality of life （QOL） refers to an individual’s perception and subjective evaluation of their health and well-being, and has become an important index to evaluate the outcomes of clinical treatment in the last past decades. There are a large number of different instruments to evaluate QOL, and the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey （SF-36） is currently one of the most widely used instruments. In recent years, SF-36 has been used to evaluate QOL of valvular heart disease patients to investigate the risk factors those influence their postoperative QOL, provide more preoperative evaluation tools for clinical physicians, and improve postoperative outcomes of patients with valvular heart disease. However, it is now just the beginning to use SF-36 to examine QOL of valvular heart disease patients. Because of significant differences in sample size, follow-up period, country and culture, current research has some controversial results. This review focuses on the progress in evaluating QOL in postoperative patients with valvular heart disease using SF-36.
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases, and symptomatic epilepsy patients are the main group of epilepsy patients, and their etiologies mainly include structural, infectious, metabolic and autoimmune, and the seizures caused by each etiology may have different degrees of impact on the quality of life of patients. The purpose of this article is to review the research on the quality of life of patients with symptomatic epilepsy caused by structural and infectious etiologies, including cerebrovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, brain tumors, traumatic brain injuries and neurocysticercosis, in order to help clinicians understand the quality of life of patients with symptomatic epilepsy and benefit patients in clinical practice.