ArticleLangenbeck's archives of surgery2019
Health-related quality of life in patients undergoing adrenalectomy: report from a Swedish National Audit.
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purposeThe aim of the study was to examine subjective health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients undergoing adrenalectomy.
methodsThe study included patients scheduled for adrenalectomy 2014-2017 after giving informed consent. The SF-36 questionnaire was administrated before operation and 1 year postoperatively. Results were compared with published normative values in Sweden.
resultsSome 50 patients were included. SF-36 scores for the whole cohort improved significantly after adrenalectomy in all dimensions except for bodily pain. Compared with the general Swedish population, the patients reported a significantly reduced HRQoL before and after adrenalectomy in all domains except for bodily pain postoperatively. Patients with benign functional tumours had lower HRQoL in physical domains before adrenalectomy than patients with benign non-functional tumours; Physical Component Summary (PCS), median 33.1 (range 17.1-62.9) vs. 44.2 (20.0-66.5), p = 0.018. Postoperatively, HRQoL was similar in the two groups of patients. Patients with benign functional tumours reported significantly improved HRQoL in all dimensions after adrenalectomy: PCS 33.1 (17.1-62.9) preoperatively vs. 47.6 (19.8-57.3) postoperatively, p = 0.005; Mental Component Summary (MCS) 33.8 (11.8-62.0) preoperatively vs. 52.7 (16.4-59.8) postoperatively, p = 0.004. These improvements were not seen in patients with benign non-functional or malignant tumours. Patients with malignant tumours reported no difference in SF-36 scores before or after adrenalectomy compared with patients with benign non-functional tumours.
conclusionsAdrenalectomy improved HRQoL in patients with benign functional tumours. Adrenalectomy did not improve HRQoL in patients with benign non-functional tumours or in patients with malignant tumours.
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