Quality of life after XXXX surgery.

@entity1 @entity5513 @entity159 @entity5
OBJECTIVE: To assess how surgery affected the quality of life of @entity1 with @entity5513 and to investigate possible predictors of the functional outcome following surgery. STUDY DESIGN: A questionnaire based on the Glasgow Benefit Inventory was completed by @entity1 randomly selected following @entity5513 surgery. SETTING: Skull base surgery unit of a university teaching hospital (tertiary referral center). @entity1 : Fifty-three @entity1 with @entity5 (follow-up, 1 to 3 y). RESULTS: With regard to overall quality of life, nine @entity1 (17.4%) reported that it became better, 28 @entity1 (53.8%) worse, and 15 @entity1 (28.8%) that it remained the same. Four @entity1 (7.8%) became better off financially, 15 @entity1 (29.4%) worse, and 32 (62.8%) remained unchanged. Forty-one @entity1 (78.8%) did not change their occupation, and 11 (21.2%) had to change their occupation, mainly because of the adverse effects of the operation. With regard to the age at operation, older @entity1 were found to have better overall quality of life. Moreover, younger @entity1 had worse postoperative financial @entity159 and they were more likely to change their occupation after the operation. The @entity5 size did not significantly affect the overall postoperative quality, but it did affect the postoperative financial @entity159 ( @entity1 with @entity5 were more likely to have worse postoperative financial @entity159 ). CONCLUSION: @entity5513 surgery has a significant impact on @entity1 ' overall quality of life. Surgeons proposing to operate on small @entity5 should not assume that the impact on @entity1 ' life will be necessarily less than that following the @entity5 . All @entity1 , especially in the younger age group, should be prepared and thoroughly informed about the consequences of the operation on their quality of life.
