The effect of femoral and popliteal percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty on patients' quality of life

Abstract

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE:Peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) is a prevalent atherosclerotic disorder characterized by limb pain on exertion, limb loss and a high mortality rate. Because of its chronic nature, it often has a negative impact on patients' quality of life (QOL). This study aimed to assess QOL among patients with PAOD that was treated by endovascular intervention using femoral and popliteal percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty (PTBA). DESIGN AND SETTING:This study was local, prospective and longitudinal. It was carried at

EQ-5D in Central and Eastern Europe: 2000–2015

“…Two of them were large European multi-country studies that involved more than one CEE country [45,46]. Overall 152 reports on country level results were obtained: Austria (n=11) [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57], Bulgaria (n=6) [45,46,58,59,13], Czech Republic (n=18) [60,61,45,46,[62][63][64][65][66]20,[67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74], Hungary (n=47) [11,75,76,45,[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86]…”

“…Main study characteristics are displayed in Table 2. The first EQ-5D studies in CEE were published from Slovenia (2000) [170], Hungary (2001) [114], Austria and Poland (2003) [51,181], followed by Slovakia (2004) [168], the Czech Republic (2007) [70,71], Romania (2013) [45] and Bulgaria (2014) [13]. In the past 15 years, the number of publications has steadily increased in the region (Figure 2).…”

EQ-5D studies in cardiovascular diseases in eight Central and Eastern European countries: a systematic review of the literature

“…Overall, 45 reports on country-level EQ-5D scores were obtained. The majority of studies were performed in Poland (n = 24, 53%) , followed by Czech Republic (n = 8) [21,22,[43][44][45][46][47][48], and Slovenia (n = 5) [21,22,[49][50][51]. We also identified two studies from Bulgaria [21,22], Hungary [22,52], and Romania [21,22] and single studies from Austria [53] and Slovakia [54].…”

“…EQ-5D index scores were calculated in 47% (n = 17) of the included studies, and they were based on Polish (n = 6) [19,20,25,26,30,42], English (n = 4) [21,22,26,52], European (n = 4) [43][44][45]48], or Slovenian tariffs (n = 1) [51] ( Supplementary Table 1 -see journal website). Three papers did not report the details of the value sets used for EQ-5D index calculation [37,40,47]. Regarding the two other outcomes, EQ VAS results were reported in 31 (86%) articles and the percentage of responses across the five health-dimensions (health profile) was reported in 19 (53%).…”

Eficácia de um programa de condicionamento fí­sico intervalado sobre a tolerância í caminhada em um indiví­duo com doença arterial obstrutiva periférica

“…Caracteriza-se por dor, cãibra, sensação de formigamento ou queimação na região da musculatura isquêmica afetada, que surge ao caminhar e cessa com repouso. Varia entre cada indivíduo, pois depende do grau de isquemia muscular e do desenvolvimento da circulação colateral [1][2][3][6][7][8][9][10]. A evolução da doença pode gerar isquemia crítica, gangrena e consequente amputação do membro [1,2].…”