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Study NCT ID: NCT00992368
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2014-03-04
First Post: 2009-10-07
Is Gene Therapy: True
Has Adverse Events: False

Brief Title: Cost-effectiveness of Reduction Mammaplasty
Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo
Organization:

Study Overview

Official Title: Cost-effectiveness of Reduction Mammaplasty
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2014-03
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: Several works show breast hypertrophy as pain cause, postural alterations, dermatitis and decrease of the functional capacity and of the self-esteem. The economical evaluations are destined to esteem the costs in alternative ways of attendance to the health, comparing, for instance, clinical strategies with surgical strategies.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze cost-effectiveness in reduction mammaplasty.
Detailed Description: 1. Design: This is a primary, prospective, analytical, controlled study in humans.
2. Settings: Data will be collected at the Plastic Surgery and Orthopedic and Traumatology Outpatient Clinics of the Samuel Libânio General Hospital (Hospital das Clínicas Samuel Libânio, HCSL), Pouso Alegre, MG, Brazil, in july/2008-december 2009.
3. Participants: Fifty women with breast hypertrophy (25 study group and 25 control group) according to the Sacchini index,12 aged 18 to 59 years, were consecutively selected to participate in this study.

Pregnant women, and patients who gave birth or were breastfeeding less than one year before the beginning of the study, as well as patients with uncontrolled systemic diseases, acute diseases, breast asymmetry, who had undergone breast or spine surgery, and who had body-mass index (BMI) lower than 18.5 kg/m2 (low body weight) or greater than 30 kg/m2 (obese women) were excluded from the study.
4. Instruments: Pain intensity in the cervical, dorsal and lumbar regions of the back has been assessed using a visual analogue scale (VAS). also will be used SF36, HAQ 20 and SF-6D.

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: None
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: