NCT06196619

The Relationship of Shear Wave Elastography Findings With Pain Threshold and Quality of Life in Patients With Lipedema

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between disease severity and subcutaneous tissue shearwave elastography findings with pain threshold and quality of life in patients diagnosed with lipedema.

Detailed description

Patients diagnosed with lipedema were divided into 3 stages according to disease severity. Pain level was evaluated with visual analogue scale, pain threshold with algometric measurement, and quality of life with EQ-5D general quality of life scale. All patients underwent measurements using B-mode ultrasound and subcutaneous elastic modulus with shear wave elastography (SWE) imaging of lower limbs at three anatomical levels.

Conditions

• Pain
• Lipedema

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	SWE:B-mode ultrasound and subcutaneous elastic modulus with shear wave elastography at three level	Visual analog scale(VAS):This scale measure in which individuals rate their pain from 0 to 10, with 0 indicating no pain at all and 10 representing the worst pain;pain threshold through algometric measurement; quality of life using the EQ-5D general quality of life scale.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-01
• Primary completion: 2023-08-01
• Completion: 2023-11-01
• First posted: 2024-01-09
• Last updated: 2024-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)