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Obes Surg
August 2024
Department of Surgery, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Purpose: The focus of measuring success in obesity treatment is shifting from weight loss to patients' health and quality of life. The objective of this study was to select a core set of patient-reported outcomes and patient-reported outcome measures to be used in clinical obesity care.
Materials And Methods: The Standardizing Quality of Life in Obesity Treatment III, face-to-face hybrid consensus meeting, including people living with obesity as well as healthcare providers, was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, in 2022.
Aesthet Surg J
January 2023
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Hand Surgery, VieCuri Medical Center, Venlo, the Netherlands.
Background: With evolving breast cancer survival and patient preferences, it is essential that reconstructive surgeons worldwide continue searching for the best reconstruction technique for patients. Autologous fat transfer (AFT) is a relatively new technique for total breast reconstruction that has already proven to be effective and safe with all advantages of autologous tissue. However, little is known about the aesthetic results and satisfaction concerning donor sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHernia
August 2021
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, The London Clinic, 20 Devonshire Place, London, W1G 6BW, England.
Purpose: The postpartum abdomen presents significant challenges to the surgeon. It is anatomically complex, with often substantial symptomatic divarication of the rectus abdominis, affecting all anterior abdominal wall layers. This may lead to profound functional sequelae, and often, of more importance to patients, a significant physical deformity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQual Life Res
April 2020
Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Center, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Purpose: With the BODY-Q, one can assess outcomes, such as satisfaction with appearance, in weight loss and body contouring patients using multiple scales. All scales can be used independently in any given combination or order. Currently, the BODY-Q cannot provide overall appearance scores across scales that measure a similar super-ordinate construct (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlast Reconstr Surg
July 2018
From the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas; the Department of Surgery, Medical College of Jundiaí; and the Santa Cruz Plastic Surgery Institute.
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