| Autor: |
Bristow, P, Lipscomb, V, Kummeling, A, Packer, R, Gerrits, H, Homan, K, Ortiz, V, Newson, K, Tivers, M |
| Přispěvatelé: |
dCSCA AVR |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Popis: |
OBJECTIVES: To design a health-related quality of life questionnaire for dogs with congenital portosystemic shunts, use it in a cohort of dogs treated with suture attenuation and compare results with those obtained from a healthy control cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data were collected from the hospital records of dogs treated with suture ligation of an intrahepatic or extrahepatic congenital portosystemic shunt at two referral centres. Owners were asked to complete a questionnaire assessing their dog's health-related quality of life preoperatively (retrospectively) and at the time of follow-up. Owners of control dogs also completed the questionnaire. RESULTS: One hundred and twenty-eight dogs with congenital portosystemic shunts and 131 control dogs were recruited. Median follow-up time was 64 months (range 19.7 to 157.2). The median long-term health-related quality of life score was excellent for both intrahepatic and extrahepatic shunt cases and similar to that of control dogs. The long-term portosystemic shunt clinical sign scores for both intrahepatic and extrahepatic congenital portosystemic shunt dogs were significantly worse than the those of the control group. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Suture attenuation of congenitial portosystemic shunts is associated with an excellent health-related quality of life score at long-term follow-up. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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