[PDF] Top 20 Which factors are associated with quality of life in patients with Graves' orbitopathy presenting for orbital decompression surgery?

... 17 McBain HB, MacKenzie KA, Hancox J, et al. Why do patients with strabismus choose to undergo realignment surgery and what are their expectations of post-surgical outcomes? Development of two ... See full document

... health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTSD) for patients after cardiac surgery, and associated risk ...“risk factors”, and “cardiac ... See full document

... diabetes, which will be more than 550 million by 2030 ...Questionnaire, Quality of Life Index-Diabetes Version and Health Utilities Index Mark 3) on the other hand focus on domains most relevant to ... See full document

... care quality and access [17]. Studies in patients with functional dyspepsia have found the contribution of clinical factors such as symptom se- verity, psychosocial factors such as anxiety, ... See full document

... in patients with AD ...111 patients with AD [23], with poorer QoL observed in patients with de- ...AD patients, regardless of whether the QoL was self-reported or evaluated by others [3, 5, 7, ... See full document

... the patients (age, sex, ethnicity, type of leukemia, duration of illness, and medical insurance coverage), the characteristics of the FCs (age, sex, ethnicity, marital sta- tus, employment, relationship to ... See full document

... in patients with COPD, most of them focused on Western ...Chinese patients with ...Korean patients with COPD. It has pre- viously been shown that patients with COPD are more likely to have ... See full document

... eligible patients the option of receiving HD treatment in the community while continuing to be followed up in the renal clinic of the public ...PD patients who converted to HD for medical reasons ...the ... See full document

... patients’ charts or IPMS within the past year. Other independent variables included the duration of suffering from diabetes, type of diabetes, the regimen used to treat the diabetes, presence or absence of ... See full document

... impacting quality of life and even causing disability for the elderly population [3, 4], which can also lead to defecation dysfunction even paralysis if accompanied by cervical cord ...For ... See full document

... threshold score, indicating that they have a poorer quality of life and large standard deviations indicate wide variability. Using normative scores over 67 and 83% of the population score below normal on ... See full document

... replacement surgery is a common surgical procedure that allows for an effective reduction of pain and adequate restoration of function for the vast majority of patients suffering from advanced knee ... See full document

... in which OFS usually correlated significantly with other QoL measurements [13, 14, 27, ...other factors that were not included in the present study may have had an effect on ...Female patients rated ... See full document

... the quality of life, especially of patients with chronic diseases, such as cancer, making it increasingly important to study this theme (Miranda et ...of life",introduced in the health ... See full document

... most patients specified that they understood the need for ...on life- style that has been associated with similar programs (such as directly observed therapy or DOT) in other studies ... See full document

... Reconstructive surgery is commonly founded on the belief that an improvement in the appearance of a disfiguring con- dition will lead to improved quality of ...Many patients are pleased with the ... See full document

... poor quality of life (Terwee et ...2015). Orbital decompression surgery, involving removal of the bony wall(s) of the eye sockets to make space for swollen muscles, is associated ... See full document

... behind the zygomatic process. The temporalis was moved away to expose the lateral orbit wall. The temporalis attached to the temporal fossa was cut through to avoid soft tissue depression after operation.  =Bone of the ... See full document

... changes associated with surgical weight loss, the psychosocial factors that are predictive of optimal surgical outcomes and long- term maintenance of weight loss, and include a compar- ison group of ... See full document

... of patients as com- pared to healthy controls deserves particular ...of patients suggest that these substances not only are involved in the patho- genesis of GD but also their production correlates with ... See full document