TY - JOUR T1 - Patient Quality of Life After Subpectoral Implant-based Breast Reconstruction With Synthetic or Biological Materials JF - Anticancer Research JO - Anticancer Res SP - 3075 LP - 3082 DO - 10.21873/anticanres.15091 VL - 41 IS - 6 AU - RALF OHLINGER AU - ZAHER ALWAFAI AU - STEFAN PAEPKE AU - MAREK ZYGMUNT AU - FLORIAN NAWROTH AU - KATHARINA SCHÜLER AU - PATRICIA FRÖHLICH Y1 - 2021/06/01 UR - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/41/6/3075.abstract N2 - 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. ER -