Articles tagged "Quality of life"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Medical, Financial, Psychosocial, and Overall Health-Related Quality of Life after Living Donation in Liver Transplantation
J. Emamaullee,¹ L. Sher,¹ T-.L. Fong,² K. Dhanireddy,¹ S. Zielsdorf,¹ C. Romero,¹ N. Wade,¹ Y. Genyk.¹
¹Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; ²Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: The long-term impact of living donation (LD) in liver transplantation on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has not been well characterized. This study was…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Patient-Centered Outcomes after Liver Transplantation: A Qualitative Study
G. Lee, J. Obayemi, E. Rubin.
Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Introduction: Outcomes after liver transplantation are most commonly reported by medical professionals as rates of graft failure, episodes of acute rejection, length of hospital stay,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
ADL and IADL Limitations Resolve but New Cognitive Impairments Develop in Liver Transplant Recipients
J. Corriveau, R. Chandrasekhar, S. Geevarghese.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville.
Introduction: Survivors of critical illness often have prolonged cognitive and functional impairments, and suffer from depression and PTSD. This constellation of symptoms is termed post-intensive…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Mayo Clinic's First Face Transplant: 17 Months On
H. Amer, S. Jowsey-Gregoire, C. Rosen, R. Razonable, K. Reid, M. Gandhi, L. Ewoldt, B. Edwards, S. Mardini.
The Essam and Dalal Obaid Reconstructive Transplant Center and the William J von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Clinical Regeneration, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Mayo Clinic established a reconstructive transplant program as an extension of clinical practice in 2010. A 31-year-old Caucasian male had significant functional limitations and disfigurement…
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Pregnancies in Female Pancreas Transplant Alone Recipients
P. Patel,¹ D. Kliniewski,² L. Coscia,² D. Armenti,² S. Constantinescu,^2,3 M. Moritz.^1,2,4
¹Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; ²Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia; ³Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Surgery, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL.
This is the first series report of pregnancies after pancreas transplant alone (PTA). Data were collected by the Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPR) via questionnaires,…
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The Ratio of CTLA4 to Perforin and Granzyme B as a Potential Biomarker of Tolerance in Chimeric Renal Transplant Patients
A. Khalil,¹ A. Chhabra,¹ A. Merchak,¹ L. Kahn,¹ J. Leventhal,² S. Ildstad.¹
¹Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Background: Thirty-six subjects have been enrolled in a phase II clinical trial aimed to induce tolerance through chimerism. Each subject received FCRx (mPBMC enriched in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospitality Houses and Transplant Patients: Assessing the Impact of a Hospitality House Dedicated to Transplant Patients and Their Families
T. Giordano,¹ J. Campbell,² J. Weinstock,³ H. Nathan.³
¹Social Work, Gift of Life Family House, Philadelphia, PA; ²Campbell-Collaboratives, LLC, Ardmore, PA; ³Executive Leadership, Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA.
Hospitality houses exclusively for transplant patients and their families are a relatively new concept and their connection to medical outcomes is untested. One hospitality house…
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Pilot Study of Health IT Feasibility and Impact on Quality of Life for Young Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients
C. Blosser, R. Katz, J. Himmelfarb, N. Bansal.
Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Background: Young adult kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are an at-risk population and long-term survival rates are significantly lower than expected. A large majority of young…
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Outcomes of Subsequent Pregnancies in Female Heart Transplant Recipients
S. Rao,^1,2 D. Armenti,¹ L. Coscia,¹ S. Constantinescu,^1,2 M. Moritz.^1,3,4
¹Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia, PA; ²Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ³Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; ⁴Surgery, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the maternal and newborn outcomes in successive pregnancies in female heart transplant recipients (HT) reported to the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Raising Awareness of the Importance of Exercise Training in Solid Organ Transplant: A Description of a Canadian Knowledge Dissemination Project.
T. Janaudis-Ferreira,¹ S. Mathur,² T. Blydt-Hansen.³
¹School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; ²Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ³BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
IntroductionHealthcare professionals are challenged by lack of knowledge of the evidence on optimal ways to assess and train solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates and recipients.…