2022 American Transplant Congress
Development and Validation of a Kidney Transplant-Specific Measure of Treatment Burden
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 3Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
*Purpose: Treatment burden refers to the work involved in managing one’s health and its impact on well-being. Treatment burden has been associated with nonadherence and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Contacts Between Organ Donor Families and Their Recipients is Therapeutic for Both Sides in Most Cases
Nicholas Green Foundation, La Canada Flintridge, CA
*Purpose: The study's purpose is to discover if making it possible for organ donor families to contact their recipients -- when both sides express the…2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient-Reported Physical Function Correlates with Liver Frailty Index and 4-Meter Gait Speed in Patients with Cirrhosis
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Frailty is highly prevalent in patients with end-stage liver disease and strongly predicts waitlist and post-transplant mortality. The Liver Frailty Index (LFI) and 4-meter…2022 American Transplant Congress
Donors’ Perceptions of Uterus Donation Motivations, Informed Consent and Value: A Qualitative Study of Dallas Uterus Transplant Study (duets) Participants
*Purpose: Clinical trials have demonstrated the feasibility and reproducibility of uterus transplantation (UTx) to treat absolute uterine factor infertility. Successful live births have resulted from…2021 American Transplant Congress
Association of Kidney Function with Patient Reported Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation
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
Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in Patients on Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Recipients – Experience with the PROMIS Global-10 Survey
*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
Transplant Trainee Education and Recruitment Experiences
*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
White, Older Men Are Less Affected by the Changes of the Covid-19 Pandemic
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
Mhealth Family Self-Management Intervention for Families of Transplanted Children
*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
Body Mass Index >35 Does Not Impact Kidney Transplant Outcomes or Health Related Quality of Life Despite BMI Class or Recipient Race
*Purpose: Kidney transplant [KTx] in recipients with BMI > 35 remains controversial and has not often been studied in recipients with BMI >40. There is…
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