Summary: All guidelines worldwide strongly recommend exercise as a pillar in the management of patients affected by lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD). Exercise therapy in this setting presents different modalities, and a ...
Abstract:Background: Despite rising non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) prevalence and its impact on liver health, there’s a lack of studies on grape seed extract’s (GSE) effect on oxidative stress and quality of life (QoL) in NAFLD patients. This ...
Summary:Background: Open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair is often related to significant morbidity and complications like paraplegia or acute kidney injury. Subsequently, prolonged intensive care stay is common. However, ...
Summary: A 74-year-old woman presented with acute symptomatic left thigh and calf swelling; imaging demonstrated evidence of occlusive thrombosis from the upper left common iliac vein to the mid-thigh. Single session zero-thrombolysis venous thrombectomy ...
Summary:Background: Because of side effects like skin dryness and consecutive symptoms like itching the therapy of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) with medical compression stockings (MCS) can lead to a diminished wear comfort and ...
Summary.Background: The study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in lower-extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients. Patients and methods: A multi-centre, observational study was ...
Abstract. To date, few studies have focused on perceived overprotection from the perspective of people with dementia (PwD). In the present examination, the association of perceived overprotection in PwD is examined as an autonomy-...
Abstract. Apathy is a diminished goal-directed behavior stemming from a lack of motivation. It is one of the most common symptoms in dementia. While the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) has proved to be a psychometrically robust measure for assessing apathy, ...
Abstract. Research on aging in different domains largely focuses on age-related decrements or intervention-related improvements, often in controlled laboratory conditions or with psychometric tests of maximum ability or traits. This special issue on ...
Background: Little is known about comprehensively measured health and quality of life of lower limb lymphedema (LLL). The aim of this study was to determine health and quality of life of LLL patients stratified by primary and secondary lymphedema compared ...
Background: Aim of the study was to validate a newly developed disease-specific quality of life questionnaire (Wuerzburg Wound Score, WWS) in patients with chronic arterial or venous leg ulcers. Patients and methods: In this prospective study 115 patients ...
Background: Calf vein diameters during compression with two different stocking brands are assessed as well as quality of life. Patients and methods: 60 subjects (53 female) with painful legs were randomized to either wearing the Venotrain micro® (VM) or ...
Background: The WELCH questionnaire includes 4 items (A, B, C and D) and estimates the maximal walking time (MWT) on treadmill in patients with claudication. Its scoring was empirically defined. We aimed to test various methods for scoring to estimate ...
Background: The Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ) is a short, easy to complete, disease-specific questionnaire to assess intermittent claudication. A Spanish version of the WIQ for Hispanic Americans has recently been validated in Texas, but it needs ...
Background: The Intermittent Claudication Questionnaire (ICQ) is a short questionnaire for the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with intermittent claudication (IC). The objective of this study was to translate the ICQ into ...
Background: To determine the impact of the postthrombotic syndrome (PTS) on quality of life after primary upper extremity deep venous thrombosis (UEDVT). Patients and methods: Twenty-five patients with a history of primary UEDVT, treated with ...
Quality of life (QOL) is increasingly being suggested as a crucial outcome variable for interventions that aim to maintain or improve health and psychological resources in old age. Currently, two main approaches to measuring QOL can be distinguished: (1) ...
Hintergrund: Chronische Wunden sind aufgrund ihres häufigen Vorkommens und der damit verbundenen Kosten von großer sozioökonomischer Bedeutung. Darüber hinaus ist die Erkrankung mit einer großen Einschränkung der Lebensqualität verbunden. Ziel der ...
Hintergrund: Die herkömmliche, primär konservative Behandlung der akuten Typ B Aortendissektion hat mit der endovaskulären Stentgraft-Versorgung eine möglicherweise wichtige Alternative erhalten. Ziel war es, die Ergebnisse und die längerfristige ...
Hintergrund: Aus klinischer Erfahrung ist bekannt, dass lymphatische Erkrankungen mit Einschränkungen der Lebensqualität (LQ) verbunden sein können. Angesichts des Fehlens validierter Erhebungsmethoden haben jedoch nur wenige Studien die LQ bei ...