title: Quality of life after an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation: the patient's point of view.
abstract: Recent progress in bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has dramatically improved the prognosis of otherwise fatal hematological diseases. These better results allow more and more patients to resume a normal life after a BMT. However, for some of them the quality of life is different after undergoing a BMT. In order to evaluate the changes that the patients have experienced in their lives, a questionnaire was sent to 90 adult patients. These patients were treated with a BMT between January 1984 and December 1989. Among the 49 answers received, 26 were from male patients and 23 from female patients. After the BMT, 65% felt that they resumed a normal life whereas 35% did not share this feeling. The lack of physical strength was the more often mentioned handicap. Following the BMT, 55% of the patients worked again after a mean time of 16 months. Among the working patients, 60% obtained satisfaction from their work. To the last question: "Based upon your experience, would you again choose to be treated with a BMT?" only one patient answered no. To conclude this survey, we showed that among the patients who answered the questionnaire a majority felt positive about the outcome of their BMT.
authors.affiliation: Bone Marrow Transplantation Department, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Claisse
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gluckman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous