Articles tagged "Psychiatric comorbidity"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Anxiety, Fatigue and Depression in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Using PROMIS Measures: A Pilot Study
S. Mohammad, M. Riordan, K. Neighbors, E. Alonso.
Siragusa Transplant Center, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
We screened for behavioral health symptoms in pediatric liver transplantation (LT) recipients to determine associations with lab measures of graft injury using the Patient-Reported Outcomes…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Psychiatric Disorders and Disturbances in Transplant Listing Decisions
G. Lee, A. Wall, D. Magnus, J. Maldonado.
School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA.
Background: Poorly controlled mental health disorders pose contraindications to listing because they are associated with increased noncompliance and graft loss.[1] Once managed, these conditions do…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Chauvet Workgroup: From Inception to the Future
H. Amer,¹ S. Jowsey-Gregoire,¹ M. Kumnig,² E. Moreno,³ W. Dean,⁴ C. Brown,⁵ S. Jarvholm,⁶ K. Coffman,⁷ P. Petruzzo,⁸ E. Morelon.⁸
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; ³UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ⁴US Department of Defense, Fort Detrick, MD; ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ⁶University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; ⁷Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ⁸University of Lyon, Lyon, France.
From the first hand transplant that ushered in the era of reconstructive transplantation, it was apparent that the psychosocial background of the patient and the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Shortening Length of Post-Operative In-Patient Stay for Living Kidney Donors
M. Loiselle, H. Bruschwein, J. Jacobs, S. Gulin, T. Rose, H. Arora, R. Nash, A. Toledo, T. Kozlowski.
Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Purpose. The study analyzes the impact of psychiatric history on postoperative length of hospital stay (LOS) of living kidney donors (LD) and initial assessment of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Psychiatry- A Growing Subspecialty. Introducing the Transplant Psychiatry Special Interest Group from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
P. Zimbrean,¹ A. DiMartini,² C. Crone.³
¹Psychiatry and Surgery (Transplant), Yale University, New HAven, CT; ²Psychiatry and Transplant, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ³Psychiatry, Inova Hospital, Falls Church, VA.
Purpose: 1. To inform the AST community about the activities of Transplant Psychiatry Special Interest Group that has been operating within the Academy of Psychosomatic…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Depressive Symptoms, Medication Nonadherence, and Clinical Outcomes Following Lung Transplantation
M. C. Chu,¹ P. J. Smith,² G. L. Stonerock,² J. A. Blumenthal.²
¹Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore; ²Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Background:Elevated depressive symptoms have been associated with worse clinical outcomes following lung transplantation, including mortality. Few studies, however, have examined the mechanisms or clinical correlates…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Substance Abuse in Acute Liver Failure: Time to Talk About Opiates.
M. Jesse, N. Rebhan, A. Yoshida, D. Moonka, A. Eshelman, M. Abouljoud, M. Rizzari.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit
Purpose: Prescription opiate utilization is on the rise. Research on acute liver failure (ALF) has focused on acetaminophen (APAP) overdose or other medical etiologies but…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Psychosocial Distress in Chronic Kidney Disease: Benefits of Kidney Transplantation.
C. Richardson,¹ D. Belenko,¹ E. Mucsi,¹ N. Edwards,¹ D. Wong,¹ M. Novak,² M. Li,³ I. Mucsi.¹
¹Multiorgan Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
PurposeWe describe the frequency of psychosocial distress among Canadian patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), and compare distress between pre-dialysis, dialysis patients and kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Psychiatric Characteristics of Acute Liver Failure Patients: Acetaminophen Overdose versus Other Etiologies.
N. Rebhan, M. Bebanic, A. Yoshida, T. Macaulay, E. Goldstein, C.-X. Ho, A. Eshelman, M. Abouljoud, M. Jesse, M. Rizzari.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit.
Scant research exists on the psychiatric history of patients with acute liver failure (ALF) presenting for liver transplantation. This study compared psychiatric profiles of patients…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Post-Liver Transplant Delirium Is Associated With Increased Mortality and Prolonged Length of Stay
N. Oliver,¹ S. Anders,¹ A. Freeman,¹ K. Fine,¹ A. Cohen,^1,2 G. Loss,^1,2 H. Bohorquez.^1,2
¹Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA; ²School of Medicine, The Queensland University, New Orleans, LA.
Delirium after liver transplantation (LT) has been reported to increase ICU and hospital length of stay, but limited information is available regarding the incidence, potential…