Recovery of quality of life after laparoscopic myomectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

It is commonly thought that laparoscopic surgery leads to faster postoperative recovery for its low invasiveness. We evaluated postoperative quality of life (QOL) after laparoscopic myomectomy (LM) by using the Euro-QOL 5 dimension (EQ-5D) score and analyzed its relationship to surgical factors.

Methods

Between 2014 and 2016, 541 patients underwent LM at our institution. We included 86 patients in the final analysis (16% response rate) who replied to the EQ-5D questionnaire, in order to investigate postoperative QOL. We evaluated patients' EQ-5D score before the operation and on the 3rd, 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th postoperative day (POD). We investigated the degree of correlation between the EQ-5D score and four surgical characteristics (operation time, intraoperative blee

SUBMITTER: Tsuzuki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6585946 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature