Satisfaction with a therapeutic sleeve for arm lymphedema secondary to breast cancer treatment: Controlled crossover trial

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• 作者：F. Osó ; rio^a ; ^{fernando.osorio@hsjoao.min-saude.pt} ; L. Ferro^a ; L. Garrido^a ; A. Henriques^b ; J. Cruz^c ; R. Fangueiro^c ; J.L. Fougo^a ; A. Azevedo^b ; ^d ; ^e
• 关键词：Secondary lymphedema ; Breast cancer ; Compression elastic sleeve
• 刊名：Porto Biomedical Journal
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January-February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：2
• 期：1
• 页码：13-17
• 全文大小：427 K
• 卷排序：2

文摘

Secondary lymphedema is a late iatrogenic side effect of breast cancer treatment. Despite multimodal decongestive therapy in their daily life breast cancer survivors with lymphedema have few alternatives but to use a compressive sleeve. Concerned with the well-known low compliance to the daily use of traditional sleeves, we conducted a comparative study to evaluate the subjective assessment of an innovative class 1 compression sleeve. We concluded that the PRADEX® sleeve, not being worse in its compressive efficacy, is much better with regard to patient comfort.