Articles tagged "Quality of life"

2022 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Self-Reported Physical Function to In-Person Frailty Assessments for the Prediction of Rehospitalizations After Kidney Transplantation
E. Lorenz¹, C. Kennedy¹, C. Schinstock¹, A. Kukla¹, D. Eton¹, H. Wadei², G. Mour³, P. Dean⁴, A. Rule¹, N. LeBrasseur¹, A. Cheville¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Rehospitalizations are common after kidney transplantation (KT) and associated with increased cost, allograft failure, and death. Physical frailty as defined by Fried criteria has…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Life of Brazilian Kidney Transplant Patients: A Sub-Project of ADHERE Brazil Multicenter Study
A. R. Almeida¹, F. R. Grincenkov², F. A. Colugnati¹, J. O. Medina³, S. De Geest⁴, H. Sanders-Pinheiro¹, S. ADHERE BRAZIL¹
¹Nephrology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, ²Psychology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, ³Nephrology, Hospital do Rim. Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Department of Public Health, Institute of Nursing Science, Basel, Switzerland
*Purpose: While the quality of life (QoL) is known to improve after kidney transplant (KT), epidemiologic data are limited in Brazil. We aimed to describe…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Neurological Side Effects from Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplant Recipients
C. Hurt¹, G. J. Greene¹, J. Friedewald², D. P. Ladner², A. Waterman³, D. Cella¹, D. Peipert¹
¹Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³Department of Surgery and J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Though kidney transplant is the optimal treatment for most individuals with end stage kidney disease, recipients experience significant side effects associated with their required…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Palliative Care for the Patients with Failing Kidney Allograft: Kraft Survey
N. Murakami¹, S. Gelfand¹, A. J. Reich¹, R. Leiter², J. Lakin², J. T. Adler³, E. Lu⁴, S. Ong⁵, B. P. Concepcion⁶, N. Singh⁷, H. Murad⁸, P. Anand⁹, S. Ramer¹⁰, D. Dadhania¹¹, K. Lentine¹², T. Alhamad¹³
¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, ³University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX, ⁴Icahn School of Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁵Universiy of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁷John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center, Shreveport, LA, ⁸Washington University in St Louis, Chesterfield, MO, ⁹Medical University of South Carolina, Lancaster, SC, ¹⁰Weil Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ¹¹Weill Cornell Medicine - NYPH, New York, NY, ¹²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ¹³Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO
*Purpose: Care of patients with failing kidney allograft can be challenging with discordant expectations between clinicians and patients. These patients often suffer from multiple morbidities,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Mhealth Family Self-Management Intervention for Families of Transplanted Children
S. M. Lerret¹, R. White-Traut², B. Medoff-Cooper³, S. I. Ahamed⁴, P. Simpson⁵, R. Schiffman⁶
¹Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, ⁵Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁶University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
*Purpose: Nearly 2,000 children undergo solid organ transplant in the US annually. In our previous research with transplant families, parents reported difficulty coping with the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
White, Older Men Are Less Affected by the Changes of the Covid-19 Pandemic
R. J. Berkowitz, A. Daud, S. Brietigam, T. S. Taylor, J. Carter, M. A. Callegari, B. Borja-Cacho, J. C. Caicedo, D. Simpson, D. P. Ladner
Surgery, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: This study explores quality of life and lifestyle changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic among pre- and post- liver (LT) and kidney (KT) transplant…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Trainee Education and Recruitment Experiences
D. E. Cassidy¹, A. E. Gomez-Rexode¹, J. R. Santos-Parker¹, M. S. Anderson², L. M. McElroy³, M. E. Byrnes², S. A. Waits², V. S. Valbuena²
¹University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: The demand for training in abdominal transplantation has continued to decrease. General surgery residents have less exposure to transplant surgery, creating a need for…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in Patients on Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Recipients – Experience with the PROMIS Global-10 Survey
G. Chawla, W. Hajjar, M. Dastgheib, N. Yanga, G. Ahmadzadeh, N. El-Dassouki, A. Shahreza, N. Al Kaabi, N. Edwards, I. Mucsi
University Health Network, Division of Nephrology and Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: The PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) Global-10 survey has been used to assess HRQoL in population surveys and studies including patients with chronic…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Association of Kidney Function with Patient Reported Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation
G. S. Kochar, S. A. Rega, I. D. Feurer, A. Dreher, H. Schaefer, D. Shaffer, R. C. Forbes, C. W. Pinson, B. P. Concepcion
Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Our study aimed to determine the association of posttransplant eGFR with patient reported outcomes (PROs) and, specifically, the risk of reduced health-related quality of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Identifying the Needs of Kidney Transplant Recipients That Can be Addressed by a Web-based Self-management Program
D. Massierer¹, R. Sapir-Pichhadze², V. Bouchard³, K. Dasgupta², N. Fernandez⁴, D. da Costa², S. Ahmed¹, M. Fortin⁵, R. Langevin⁶, N. Mayo¹, T. Janaudis-Ferreira¹
¹Faculty of Medicine- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Montreal, QC, Canada, ³CIUSSS du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada, ⁴Department of Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine, Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Department of Medicine, Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP), Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation improves the quality of life (QoL) of patients with end-stage renal disease, however, post-transplant recovery of physical health and other aspects of…