1. A prospective study on quality of life in youths after pectus excavatum correction
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Mikael Thastum, Johanne Jeppesen Lomholt, Elisabeth Brammer Jacobsen, and Hans K. Pilegaard
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Surgical correction ,Featured Article ,Nuss procedure ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Child health ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pectus excavatum ,Physical functioning ,030225 pediatrics ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Physical therapy ,Deformity ,Medicine ,Surgery ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Prospective cohort study ,Psychosocial - Abstract
Background: The impact of correction of pectus excavatum (PE) on adolescents’ health-related quality of life (HRQL) has only been investigated in prospective designs using disease-specific measures and without controls. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the HRQL before and after surgical correction of PE using a generic HRQL measure, and to compare the reported level of HRQL before surgery with an age-comparable control group. Methods: Patients (n=107) and one of their parents (n=106) completed the generic HRQL measure: the Child Health Questionnaire before, 3 months, and 6 months after correction for PE. A control group (n=183) consisting of school children comparable in age completed the same measure on one occasion. Results: The patients’ level of HRQL before surgery was comparable to the level of the controls except for physical functioning; here boys reported impaired function compared to controls (P
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- 2016
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