Quality of life in patients with postoperative unilateral diaphragm relaxation

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OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the quality of life before and after video-assisted thoracoscopic plication of relaxed dome of diaphragm.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

The study included 17 patients operated on for unilateral relaxation of diaphragm. We analyzed quality of life in preoperative period, 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after surgery using the SF-36 and EuroQ-5D-5L questionnaires. To assess the impact of abnormality on respiratory function, we estimated diaphragm position, spirometry data and SGRQ scores.

RESULTS

FVC increased by 16.5% after 1 month, 19.5% after 6 months and 20.1% after 12 months. In addition, FEV1 significantly increased (by 12.6% after 1 month, 10.1% after 6 months and 12.7% after 12 months). Mean values of diaphragm elevation in postoperative period decreased by 25.5—25.6%. According to the SF-36 and EuroQ-5D-5L questionnaires, physical and psychological health components significantly increased within a month after surgical treatment. According to the SGRQ questionnaire, influence of disease on overall status decreased a month after surgery as evidences by lower total score (p<0.05).

CONCLUSION

Objective and survey data revealed significant improvement in quality of life after surgery. A trend towards higher quality of life was demonstrated by all questionnaires in a month after surgery.

Keywords:

quality of life

diaphragm relaxation

diaphragmatic replication

thoracoscopy

Authors:

Topolnitskiy E.B.

Siberian State Medical University;
Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital;
National Research Tomsk State University

SPIN RSCI: 6744-9541
Scopus AuthorID: 35197267200
ResearcherID: T-5818-2018
ORCID: 0000-0002-5674-0177

Shefer N.A.

Siberian State Medical University;
Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital

SPIN RSCI: 3662-7399
Scopus AuthorID: 57211683932
ResearcherID: HJY-1484-2023
ORCID: 0000-0002-0011-8370

Yunusov A.N.

Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital

ORCID: 0009-0008-5889-1789

Received:

03.10.2023

Accepted:

13.01.2024

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