Articles tagged "Quality of life"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Social Determinants of Quality of Life in Patients Evaluated for Kidney Transplant
H. Wesselman¹, S. Wang², C. J. Chang², J. R. Pleis³, K. Kendall², E. Croswell², M. Dew², M. L. Unruh⁴, R. Shapiro⁵, L. Myaskovsky⁴
¹University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, ⁵Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Non-Hispanic African Americans (AA) have a higher incidence of ESRD but lower rates of kidney transplant (KT), and poorer quality of life (QOL) compared…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Exercise for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates and Recipients: A Joint Position Statement of the Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST) and Canadian Network for Rehabilitation and Exercise for Solid Organ Transplant Optimal Recovery (CAN-RESTORE)
T. Janaudis-Ferreira¹, S. Mathur², R. Deliva³, N. Howes⁴, C. Patterson⁵, A. Räkel⁶, S. So⁵, L. Wickerson⁷, M. White⁶, Y. Avitzur⁵, O. Johnston⁸, N. Heywood⁹, S. Singh⁷, S. Holdsworth¹⁰
¹School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada, ⁵The Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶University of Montreal Hospital Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁷University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁹McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Exercise training has been shown to be beneficial across several chronic disease groups that may lead to solid organ transplantation (SOT), and across organ…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes after Face Transplantation
B. Kollar, S. Tasigiorgos, M. Turk, E. Bueno, B. Perry, M. Alhefzi, H. Kiwanuka, M. Nizzi, N. Krezdorn, T. Win, M. I. Dorante, V. Haug, D. J. Annino, F. M. Marty, A. Chandraker, S. G. Tullius, L. V. Riella, B. Pomahac
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Face transplantation (FT) holds promise of restoring form and function to patients with severe facial disfigurement not amenable to traditional reconstructive procedures. However, quantitative…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Utility of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System to Screen for Depression and Anxiety in Kidney Transplant Recipients
E. Tang, S. Dano, A. Ayub, V. Li, I. Escudero, N. Ullah, N. Edwards, M. Novak, I. Mucsi
University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Anxiety and depression are frequent concerns in kidney transplant recipients and are associated with non-adherence and worse clinical outcomes. However, they are often underrecognized…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Parental Anxiety and Depression Rates across Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Populations
A. M. Lofton¹, A. Wille¹, E. A. Steinberg², C. Buchanan²
¹Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Psychiatry, University of Colorado SOM, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: This study’s purpose is to examine parental self-report of depression and anxiety symptoms during the pre-transplant evaluation process for solid organ transplant pediatric candidates…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Symptom Burden after Living Donor Kidney Transplant Measured with the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Kidney Symptom Index is Associated with Worse Transplant Outcomes
J. Peipert, J. Caicedo-Ramirez, K. Ensor, J. Friedewald, M. Abecassis, D. Cella, D. Ladner, Z. Butt
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: As the FDA and other stakeholders in transplantation look for fit-for-purpose (FFP) patient-reported outcome measures, there is a need to better understand symptom burden…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Relevant Renal Transplant Patient Reported Symptoms That Could Be Used for New Patient Reported Outcome Development
I. Purnajo¹, J. Beaumont¹, M. Polinsky², E. Alemao², M. J. Everly¹
¹Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
*Purpose: We analyzed post-transplant health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and symptom experience captured longitudinally in the belatacept vs. cyclosporine (BENEFIT and BENEFIT-EXT) trial cohorts to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes by Conception Age in Female Liver Transplant Recipients
M. Sarkar¹, L. A. Coscia², D. Kliniewski², S. Rao³, S. Constantinescu⁴, M. J. Moritz⁵
¹Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Gift of Life Institute, Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA, ³Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ⁴Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare pregnancy outcomes in liver transplant recipients by different conception ages. Background: Over 30% of female transplant…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Using Multidimensional Quality of Life Measurement to Better Understand the Benefit of Living Donor Kidney Transplant
J. Peipert, J. Caicedo-Ramirez, K. Ensor, J. Friedewald, M. Abecassis, D. Cella, Z. Butt, D. Ladner
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Patient and graft survival after living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) are generally excellent, but there remains some variation in health-related quality of life (HRQOL)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Nutritional Literacy and Diet Quality in a Cohort of Inner-City Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs)
S. Leventer, G. Yang, J. Leong, K. Lembrikova, C. Wilson, M. Markell
Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Poor long-term outcomes in kidney transplantation may relate to coincident diseases, including diabetes and cardiovascular illnesses. Poor nutrition habits may cause progression of complications…