Quality of life in patients with peripheral arterial disease

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Unit:
Library of the School of Health Sciences
ΠΜΣ Σχεδιασμός και Διοίκηση Υπηρεσιών Υγείας
Deposit date:
2019-06-19
Year:
2019
Author:
Papas Theofanis
Supervisors info:
Καντζανού Μαρία, Έπίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Τούντας Ιωάννης, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Μπενέτου Βασιλική, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Ποιότητα υγείας ασθενών που πάσχουν από περιφερική αγγειακή νόσο
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Quality of life in patients with peripheral arterial disease
Summary:
Background:
The peripheral arterial disease of the lower extremities, constitutes a frequent clinical syndrome that is owed in the chronic degenerative damage of arteries supplying the limbs, with histological substrate mainly atherosclerosis. With given the increase of patients, the improvement of prognosis with the use of modern therapeutic choices, but also the frequent insufficiency of clinical criteria to attribute the real effect of illness, the assessment of quality of life constitutes a modern challenge for health professionals.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study is the assessment of health related quality of life in patients with peripheral arterial disease and the investigation of relations and correlations with the clinical characteristics and the objective criteria of illness, with parallel registration of the socio- economic and demographic characteristics of the patients. Moreover, the group of patients with peripheral arterial disease who were programmed for surgical intervention is compared with the corresponding team of patients with carotid artery disease, as for the quality of life.
Methods:
The study was undertaken in the General Hospital of Korgialeneio – Benakeio Hellenic Red Cross and it recruited 124 symptomatic patients with peripheral arterial disease of the lower extremities and 60 patients with carotid artery disease who were programmed for surgical intervention. SF-36 questionnaire was used to evaluate the quality of life, while additional questionnaires registered the socio-economic-demographic and clinical characteristics of illness.
Results:
The quality of life in patients with peripheral arterial disease is presented considerably decreased in all the sectors, than the patients with carotid artery disease. The symptoms and the clinical criteria of illness do not reflect sufficiently the effect in the quality of life of patients, as they present modest correlations with the subscales of SF -36.
Conclusion:
The peripheral arterial disease of lower extremities presents important negative effect in the quality of life of patients, included physical, social and mental parameters of health. The evaluation of quality of life in combination with the objective criteria of illness leads to better comprehension of effects and more correct making of therapeutic decisions, in order to achieve both successful medical results and satisfaction of patient’s perceptions.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Peripheral arterial disease, Quality of life, Carotid artery disease, SF-36
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
103
Number of pages:
148
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