Articles tagged "Quality of life"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Cutaneous Disease in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A 5-Year Study from a Medical -Surgical Transplant Dermatology Center.
R. Allawh, A. Weiffenbach, K. Nadhan, M. Abdelmalek, C. Cusack, C. Chung.
Dermatology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Background: Solid organ transplant recipients (OTR) on chronic immunosuppression exhibit heightened risk of developing a myriad of cutaneous manifestations compared to non-transplant patients, including cutaneous…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pediatric Lung Transplant on Quality of Life Outcomes.
T. Lazor,¹ H. Grasemann,^2,3,4 M. Solomon,^2,3,4 S. Anthony.^1,4,5,6
¹Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Program in Physiology and Experimental Medicine, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁵Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁶Canadian National Transplant Research Program, Toronto, Canada
Purpose: Considerable debate within the transplant community over the last decade has focused on survival benefits following lung transplant (LTx) in children. This discussion has…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Pilot Test of the "Individualized Self-Management Training in Adolescent/Young Adult Recipients of Transplantation (iSTART)" Program.
E. Fredericks, S. Eder, D. Egleston, W. Newhouse, D. O'Reilly, G. Freed, J. Magee, K. Resnicow.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Objective: To pilot test the feasibility and impact of the iSTART program on medication adherence, quality of life, and medication barriers among adolescent/young adult (AYA)…
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.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes in Female Kidney Transplant Recipients Using Assisted Fertility Methods.
L. Coscia,¹ D. Armenti,¹ S. Constantinescu,^1,2 M. Moritz.^1,3,4
¹Transplant Pregnancy Registry, Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia, PA; ²Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ³Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; ⁴Morsani College of Medicine, USF, Tampa, FL
The purpose of this study was to analyze pregnancy and transplant outcomes in female kidney recipients who used fertility medications alone (FM), intrauterine insemination (IUI),…
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…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Building a Conceptual Framework of Treatment Burden After Kidney Transplant: A Qualitative Study.
E. Lorenz, J. Egginton, M. Stegall, A. Cheville, D. Eton.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Background: After kidney transplant, patients must negotiate complex medication regimens, lifestyle changes, laboratory monitoring and clinic appointments. The personal workload of healthcare and its impact…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Commonly Expressed Living Donation Fears and Concerns by 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.¹
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. In the United States, many factors, including lack of awareness and misconceptions about living kidney transplantation, create challenges that limit increasing the live kidney…
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…