AIM: To assess mid-/long-term postoperative quality of life (QOL) of esophageal atresia (EA) patients. METHODS: Modified gastrointestinal quality-of-life index surveys were administered to postoperative EA patients who were at least 7 years old at evaluation to assess three topics about general lifestyle (GL), five topics about EA, and four topics about mental health (MH). For MH, caregivers were also interviewed, but separately. Subjects were divided according to age: children (7-12 years old), teenagers (13-19), and adults (20 and over) and compared according to Foker or Kimura elongation (FK) or bougienage stretching (BS). RESULTS: There were 22 patients evaluated. Responses for GL, EA, and MH did not differ significantly between age groups, but MH responses by caregivers for subjects who were children or teenagers scored significantly lower than responses they made themselves. For primary esophageal elongation technique (PET), age at esophagoesophagostomy was significantly higher in FK. Despite FK scoring 15.1 versus 12.4 for BS during EA evaluation, this difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Changes in QOL responses according to age were unremarkable. However, discrepancies in MH indicate that subjects felt better than their caregivers thought. PET did not appear to influence QOL.
AIM: To assess mid-/long-term postoperative quality of life (QOL) of esophageal atresia (EA) patients. METHODS: Modified gastrointestinal quality-of-life index surveys were administered to postoperative EA patients who were at least 7 years old at evaluation to assess three topics about general lifestyle (GL), five topics about EA, and four topics about mental health (MH). For MH, caregivers were also interviewed, but separately. Subjects were divided according to age: children (7-12 years old), teenagers (13-19), and adults (20 and over) and compared according to Foker or Kimura elongation (FK) or bougienage stretching (BS). RESULTS: There were 22 patients evaluated. Responses for GL, EA, and MH did not differ significantly between age groups, but MH responses by caregivers for subjects who were children or teenagers scored significantly lower than responses they made themselves. For primary esophageal elongation technique (PET), age at esophagoesophagostomy was significantly higher in FK. Despite FK scoring 15.1 versus 12.4 for BS during EA evaluation, this difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Changes in QOL responses according to age were unremarkable. However, discrepancies in MH indicate that subjects felt better than their caregivers thought. PET did not appear to influence QOL.
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