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Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Short-Term QOL After Live Liver Donation: A New York Center for Liver Transplantation (NYCLT) Report

    D. LaPointe Rudow,1 S. DeLair,2 S. Florman,1 J. Guarrera,3 M. Kinkhabwala,4 M. Orloff,5 Y. Wu,6 L. Teperman.7

    1Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; 2New York Center for Liver Transplantation, Albany, NY; 3New York Presbyterian Hosptial, New York, NY; 4Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; 5University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY; 6Westchester Medical Center, Valhala, NY; 7New York University Hospitals Center, New York, NY.

    Introduction: LDLT is an option for selective patients, especially in regions with less opportunity for deceased donors. New York State (NYS) has the most LDLT…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Why Patients Are Unwilling to Ask for a Living Donor: A Mixed Methods Study

    A. Waterman,1 C. Kynard-Amerson,1 A. Parnicky,1 E. Schenk,2 J. Chahal,1 J. Peipert.1

    1David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

    Multiple studies find that kidney patients are uncomfortable asking potential living donors to donate, but less is known about the specific reasons why not. This…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Quantifying Altruism in Kidney Donors: How Good Are the Current Scales?

    M. McLaughlin, D. Berglund, A. Matas, H. Ibrahim.

    U of MN, Mpls.

    The decision to become a living kidney donor is complicated and altruism is certainly what drives the majority of organ donors. Unfortunately, there are no…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Psychological Benefit After Living Kidney Donation: Is It a Myth?

    H. Maple, N. Mamode.

    Renal Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.

    Introduction: The moral and ethical justification for living donation is provided by an assumed psychological benefit to the donor after donation. However, there are no…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Burden of Caregiving for Living Kidney Donors

    H. Maple, N. Mamode.

    Renal Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.

    Introduction: A large number of kidney donors are also primary caregivers for their recipients. Whilst primary caregiver status is a well-established cause of psychopathology, it…
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