Quality of life and patient satisfaction after laparoscopic antireflux surgery using the QOLARS questionnaire

Abstract

The findings show that QOLARS is a sensitive tool for assessing surgical outcome after laparoscopic antireflux surgery. The quality-of-life response closely follows the clinical outcome of surgical treatment, reflecting its side effects as well. This study suggests that a generic quality-of-life scale can preoperatively identify patients with GERD who are likely to be dissatisfied with antireflux surgery.

Impact of laparoscopic anterior 270° fundoplication on the quality of life and symptoms profile of neurodevelopmentally delayed versus neurologically unimpaired children and their parents

“…Furthermore, the patients who obtained symptom relief and good QoL values continued to do so. These kinetics are consistent with the literature on adult patients [8,21,22].…”

“…It is suggested that a low preoperative QoL may predict a poor functional outcome [22,24]. It is known that for dystrophic and neurologically impaired children and their parents, lower preoperative functional and QoL scores throughout all dimensions [25] may correspond with a poorer functional outcome [2,4] and a higher recurrence rate [19] than for normal children [18].…”

Long‐term results of quality of life after standard laparoscopic vs. robot‐assisted laparoscopic fundoplications for gastro‐oesophageal reflux disease. A comparative clinical trial

“…Improvement in short term results in quality of life after laparoscopic fundoplicaton has been widely reported (31)(32)(33). To the authors' knowledge, our prospective study comparing long-term quality of life results in patients undergoing either traditional or robotic fundoplication is the first desription in the existing literature.…”

Guidelines for surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease

“…Following laparoscopic antireflux surgery, dysphagia has been reported to significantly improve from preoperative values [47,188,197,198,[200][201][202][203][204] (level II-III). Despite reports of improved dysphagia following surgery, postoperative dysphagia remains a significant problem, with reported reoperation rates ranging from 1.8 to 10.8% [33,34,38,39,143,196,[205][206][207] (level I-III) and endoscopic dilatation rates ranging from 0 to 25% [34,121,143,145,189,195,196,[208][209][210][211][212][213] (level I-III). Although perioperative and early postoperative dysphagia have been reported as high as 76% [191] (level II), the majority of studies show early and mid dysphagia rates, up to 1 year postoperatively, of less than 20% [33,34,38,39,44,47,120,122,189,191,192,195,196,199,200,…”