PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - RALF OHLINGER
AU  - ZAHER ALWAFAI
AU  - STEFAN PAEPKE
AU  - MAREK ZYGMUNT
AU  - FLORIAN NAWROTH
AU  - KATHARINA SCHÜLER
AU  - PATRICIA FRÖHLICH
TI  - Patient Quality of Life After Subpectoral Implant-based Breast Reconstruction With Synthetic or Biological Materials
AID  - 10.21873/anticanres.15091
DP  - 2021 Jun 01
TA  - Anticancer Research
PG  - 3075--3082
VI  - 41
IP  - 6
4099  - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/41/6/3075.short
4100  - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/41/6/3075.full
SO  - Anticancer Res2021 Jun 01; 41
AB  - Aim: Quality of life and patient satisfaction after subpectoral breast reconstruction with meshes or acellular dermal matrices (ADM) and implants were assessed using the BreastQ questionnaire to investigate a potential influence of the materials on these parameters. Patients and Methods: The BreastQ questionnaire was completed by 121 patients, who had received material-assisted, heterologous, subpectoral breast reconstruction between 2010 and 2018. Results: Answers were similar independent of the reconstruction materials used. After prophylactic mastectomy, the physical wellbeing (chest) improved significantly with all materials (p=0.04). Postoperative radiotherapy significantly reduced satisfaction with outcome (p=0.005). Patients under 50 years old had significantly better postoperative sexual wellbeing than older patients (p=0.03). Conclusion: No influence was detected of the materials on the postoperative quality of life and patient satisfaction. An overall better quality of life was reported by younger and normal-weight patients with prophylactic or nipple-sparing mastectomy without radiotherapy.