Quality of Life in Lymphedema Patients Treated by Microsurgical Lymphatic Vessel Transplantation-A Long-Term Follow-Up.

Louisa Antonie HockTim NürnbergerKonstantin Christoph Koban Paul Severin WiggenhauserRiccardo GiuntaWolfram Demmer

Published in: Life (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)

Previous studies have already shown a significant improvement of HRQoL within the first postoperative years for patients treated by LVT. This study also demonstrates significant long-term improvement after LVT, thus underlining the effectiveness of using LVT to improve the quality of live for patients with both primary and secondary lymphedema long-term.

Keyphrases

randomized controlled trial
systematic review
lymph node
patients undergoing
stem cells
internal carotid artery
quality improvement
cell therapy
case control
mesenchymal stem cells
bone marrow
middle cerebral artery