NCT02769559

Reduction Mammaplasty and Improved Quality of Life

Reduction Mammaplasty Safely Increases the Quality of Life in Patients With Mammary Hypetrophy.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Bratislava · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 63 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The data gathered here will be used to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the mammary reduction in patients with macromastia.

Detailed description

The data was gathered using retrospective and follow-up prospective study of a group of patients, consisting of adult women that underwent a breast reduction surgery at the Clinic of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Faculty of Comenius University and at the University Hospital in Bratislava, Ružinov, during the time period between 2000 until May 2014. The data concerning the quality of life of these patients was gathered by using the globally standardized questionnaire "Breast Q questionnaire©" with the separate software system evaluation tool "QScore©". The statistical analysis was conducted using GraphpadPrism program v. 6.01. The total number of respondents consisted of 52 people who were followed-up for up to 12 years.

Conditions

• Macromastia
• Signs and Symptoms
• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Reduction mammaplasty	Surgical removal of excess breast tissue

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2016-05-11
• Last updated: 2016-05-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Slovakia