Clinical Analysis of Pain After Hysterectomy
- Conditions
- Postoperative Pain
- Registration Number
- NCT01706549
- Lead Sponsor
- Tampere University Hospital
- Brief Summary
Patients undergone either laparoscopic or vaginal hysterectomy will called for a clinical examination 1-3 years after surgery, if they suffer from pain 6 months after surgery. The aims of the study are:
1. to reveal whether the pain is postsurgical in nature, or if there are any other reasons for the pain.
2. to reveal the type of pain, neuropathic, nociceptive or idiopathic.
3. to reveal the impact of pain on quality of life.
- Detailed Description
Patients undergone either laparoscopic or vaginal hysterectomy will called for a clinical examination 1-3 years after surgery, if they suffer from pain 6 months after surgery. All patients were treated in Pirkanmaa District Hospital and the anesthesia was either propofol-infusion or sevoflurane gas with remifentanil-infusion.
6months after the surgery, questionnaires about pelvic pain were sent to the patients. Patients still having pain at that time, were invited for detailed sensory and gynecological examinations.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 16
- hysterectomy 1-3 years previously
- suffering from pain 6months postsurgically
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Type of Chronic Pain After Hysterectomy 1-3 years after hysterectomy Number of participants with probable neuropathic, possible neuropathic, pain had subsided and other type of pain.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Is the Pain Due to Hysterectomy? 1-3 years Number of patients having posthysterectomy pain versus other pain
Quality of Life After Hysterectomy 1-3 years after hysterectomy Quality of life as measured by the SF-36, which consists of 8 scales.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Tampere University Hospital
🇫🇮Tampere, Finland