Articles tagged "Quality of life"

2017 American Transplant Congress
A Possible Unintended Consequence of the Kidney Allocation System: The Effect of Duration of Dialysis on Mental Health Outcomes.
S. Radomski,^1,2 I. Feurer,² R. Forbes,² B. Concepcion,² H. Schaefer.²
¹Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Purpose: Long-term dialysis has been shown to adversely affect physical health-related quality of life (HRQOL) but its effect on mental HRQOL and symptoms of depression…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Immunosuppression Adherence on De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody Formation in Renal Transplant Recipients in Canada: A Modeling Analysis.
J. Howell,¹ R. Pollock,² J. Schwartz.³
¹Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., Markham, ON, Canada; ²Ossian Health Economics and Communications GmbH, Basel, Switzerland; ³Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., Northbrook, IL
Acute rejection rates and short-term graft survival have improved substantially as a result of advances in immunosuppression (IS), though longer-term graft survival rates have improved…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Penis Transplantation: First U.S. Experience.
D. Ko, K. Li, H. Salinas, I. Schol, M. Treiser, F. McGovern, A. Feldman, B. Bojovic, J. Winograd, M. Grant, R. Ehrlichmann, C. Tanrikut, J. Lee, G. Choy, R. Liu, I. Rosales, R. Colvin, K. Eberlin, C. Cetrulo, Jr.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
STUDY PURPOSE: Penis transplantation represents a new paradigm in restoring function and anatomic appearance following genitourinary tissue loss. To date, only two penis transplants have…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Sexual Dysfunction Among Living Kidney Donors.
S. Halpern,¹ A. Thomas,¹ C. Holscher,¹ A. Massie,¹ M. Henderson,¹ S. Anjum,¹ J. Locke,² D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore, MD; ²UAB, Birmingham, AL
Ensuring high post-donation quality of life among living kidney donors (LKDs) is a critical component of making living donation worthwhile for both recipients and donors.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Post-Donation Experiences of Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors in the United States.
A. Maghen,¹ G. Vargas,¹ S. Connor,¹ S. Nassiri,¹ E. Hicks,² L. Kwan,¹ S. Maliski,³ J. Veale.
¹Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; ³University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS
A. Non-directed donors (NDDs) can potentially help alleviate the overburdened kidney transplant waiting list while also improve the quality of life for patients with end-stage…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on the Importance of Outcomes for Trials in Kidney Transplantation: An International Best Worse Scaling Survey.
M. Howell,^1,2 N. Evangelidis,^1,2 B. Sautenet,² G. Wong,^1,2,3 J. Craig,^1,2 K. Howard,¹ A. Tong.^1,2
¹School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ³Centre for Transplant Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
To optimize the benefits of kidney transplantation, recipients and clinicians should have an agreed, shared management plan. This relies on prioritizing the same outcomes but…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Dedicated Young Adult Service with a Youth Worker Increases Engagement of Teenagers and Young Adults with Kidney Transplantation and Impacts Favourably on Clinical Outcomes.
D. Cross, P. Harden.
Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
Transition from pediatric to adult care is associated with a high risk of transplant loss, increased morbidity and mortality. Frequently there is poor engagement by…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in Kidney Donors.
H. Ibrahim,¹ D. Berglund,¹ S. Jackson,² A. Matas.¹
¹U of MN, Mpls; ²M Health, Mpls
Most living donors (LDs) enjoy excellent HRQOL after donation. However, most studies addressing HRQOL in this group have ascertained HRQOL related outcomes only at one…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy After Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation: Maternal and Offspring Outcomes.
S. Rao,¹ L. Coscia,² D. Armenti,² S. Constantinescu,^1,2 M. Moritz.^2,3,4
¹Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ²Gift of Life Institute, Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA; ³Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; ⁴Morsani College of Medicine, USF, Tampa
This study analyzed 109 pregnancies (116 outcomes) in 62 female kidney-pancreas (KP) recipients reported to the Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPR). Data were collected via…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Cross-sectional and Serial Evolution of Quality of Life in Elderly Kidney Donors.
S. Ake,¹ D. Berglund,² S. Jackson,³ A. Matas,² C. Gross,² H. Ibrahim.²
¹Saint Catherine University, St. Paul; ²U of MN, Mpls; ³M Health, Mpls
Little is known regarding long-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in elderly (those donating when ≥65 yrs) living kidney donors (LKDs). Using the SF-36, we…