2017 American Transplant Congress
Building a Conceptual Framework of Treatment Burden After Kidney Transplant: A Qualitative Study.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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…2016 American Transplant Congress
High KDPI Kidneys (>85%) Do Not Adversely Affect HRQOL After Kidney Transplantation.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Background. Since December 2014, deceased donor kidneys are allocated based on a kidney donor profile index (KDPI) by four sequences, A thru D. Estimated kidney…2016 American Transplant Congress
Laparoscopically Assisted Living Donor Hepatectomy Is Safe and Cost Effective.
Transplantation, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
The surgical technique employed during living donor hepatectomy (LDH) has evolved since the inception of the procedure, but donor safety is always paramount. We review…
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