Quality of Life in Patients after Meningioma Resection

Abstract

The quality of life impairments in most patients after tumour resection can be classified as mild to moderate. However, other disease and age effects are difficult to distinguish without a control group. The IHD(NS) correlated well with the NHP questionnaire.

A multivariate analysis of prognostic factors for health-related quality of life in patients with surgically managed meningioma

“…5,6 Several groups have investigated the prognostic significance of baseline HQOL parameters and baseline clinical characteristics for clinical outcome. [7][8][9][10] In these studies, a variety of unspecialized HQOL instruments were used to evaluate global HQOL after meningioma resection. However, it is not sufficient to describe the relationship between meningioma and HQOL in global terms.…”

Evolution and Future of Skull Base Surgery: The Paradigm of Skull Base Meningiomas

“…Critical appraisal of outcomes should be location specific and ideally include appropriate ophthalmologic, endocrine, cosmetic, and cognitive evaluations, as well as return to work and preoperative level of activity. In addition, there has been recent scientific focus on measuring and reporting more subjective outcomes such as level of satisfaction with care and quality of life after treatment for skull base malignancies, including meningiomas (38), although the literature on this topic remains sparse compared with other histologies and disciplines (3,58,96,125). Interestingly, extent of resection was identified in multivariate regression to predict health-related quality of life after meningioma surgery (90).…”

Quality of Life in Patients with Skull Base Tumors: Current Status and Future Challenges

“…Old age was associated with a negative impact on health-related QOL following resection of anterior skull base tumors or cavernous sinus meningiomas. 13 21 evaluated the QOL of patients treated for unilateral vestibular schwannoma by microsurgery or by gamma knife radiosurgery. The QOL, posttreatment facial nerve function, and hearing were significantly better in the radiosurgery group, and improved QOL scores were associated with better facial nerve and hearing function.…”