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Articles tagged "Quality of life"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Pregnancy Outcomes in 39 Lung Transplant Recipients

    S. Constantinescu1, L. A. Coscia2, A. Yusuf2, S. Rao3, M. J. Moritz4

    1Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA, 3University of Virginia Heath System, Charlottesville, VA, 4Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe 52 pregnancies in 39 lung transplant recipients reporting to the Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPRI) from…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Subjective Cognition Among Liver Transplant Recipients

    D. Ko1, M. S. Dietrich2, K. A. Gifford3, S. H. Ridner2

    1School of Nursing, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 3Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: Regular assessment of cognition is highly suggested to facilitate the early detection and treatment of cognitive impairment in the liver transplant (LT) population. While…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Cost Effectiveness Analysis Comparing Treatments of Biliary Strictures in Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients

    B. Whitehead1, C. Lemoine2, R. Superina2, J. Green3, S. Mohammad1

    1Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Division of Transplant Surgery, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 3Division of Interventional Radiology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Biliary strictures are associated with significant morbidity after pediatric liver transplantation. There are two main treatment options which are percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Longitudinal Quality of Life Assessment in Liver Transplant – Feasibility Study and Early Results

    O. M. Siddiqui, P. Polineni, A. J. Thuluvath, C. Loftus

    Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: In addition to survival, quality of life (QoL) is critical to optimizing care in liver transplantation (LT). Although QoL is associated with clinical outcomes…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Centre Variation in Emergency Hospital Readmissions Following Renal Transplantation in England

    J. Peracha1, D. Pitcher1, R. Steenkamp1, J. Medcalf2, G. Lipkin3, D. Nitsch4, W. McKane5

    1UK Renal Registry, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, 3University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 4London School of Hygiene and Trpoical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 5Sheffield Kidney Institute, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: Emergency hospital readmissions (EHR) following surgery are associated with significant patient distress, morbidity and costs to healthcare providers. In this study we aim to…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Loneliness in Adults Awaiting Liver Transplantation at 7 U.S. Transplant Centers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    K. Berry1, D. Kent1, S. Seetharaman1, R. Wong1, Y. Mohamad1, F. Yao1, M. Duarte2, B. Boyarsky3, R. Rahimi4, A. Duarte-Rojo5, M. Kappus6, M. Volk7, D. Ladner8, D. Segev3, M. McAdams-DeMarco3, E. Verna9, D. Ganger8, J. C. Lai1

    1UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 2Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, CA, 3Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, 4Baylor, Dallas, TX, 5Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 6Duke, Durham, NC, 7Loma Linda, Loma Linda, CA, 8Northwestern, Chicago, IL, 9Columbia, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Loneliness, defined by the National Academy of Medicine as “a subjective feeling of being isolated”, has recently emerged as a strong predictor of adverse…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Multistep Algorithm to Achieve Weight Loss Goal in Advanced Stage Obesity Kidney Transplant Candidates: A Single Center Preliminary Report

    A. Shah, J. Galpern, L. Castaldo, P. Touhy, M. Thomas, A. Aaron, M. Fruscione, L. Dageforde, N. Elias

    Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: Obesity causes and complicates glomerulonephritis and chronic kidney disease (CKD) leading to end stage renal disease (ESRD). Kidney Transplantation (KT) improves ESRD patients’ survival…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Clinically Evident Portal Hypertension (CEPH) is Associated with Low IGF-1 in Children with Chronic Liver Disease

    B. Whitehead1, S. Mohammad1, S. Kelly1, J. Josefson2, L. Mithal3, E. M. Alonso1

    1Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Division of Endocrinology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 3Division of Infectious Disease, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Children with chronic liver disease exhibit growth hormone resistance which is an additional risk factor for sarcopenia and growth failure in this vulnerable population.…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Associations of Lack of Insurance and Other Sociodemographic Traits with Deficiencies in Follow-Up After Living Kidney Donation

    K. Lentine1, R. Hays2, N. Lam3, A. Tietjen4, A. Muiru5, H. Xiao1, A. Garg6, C. Thomas7, G. McNatt7, R. Howey8, U. Lebron-Banks9, M. Cooper10, M. Conboy11, B. Kasiske11

    1Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, 2Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 3Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 4St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ, 5Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 6Western Univ, London, ON, Canada, 7Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 8Toyon Associates, Concord, CA, 9New York Presb Hosp, New York, NY, 10Medstar-Georgetown, Washington, DC, 11SRTR, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Follow-up after living kidney donation in the United States has improved with recent policy mandates. We hypothesized that lack of insurance at donation may…
  • 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

    D. A. Walczak1, E. Collins2, E. Benedetti1

    1Organ Transplant, University of Il Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, 2College of Nursing, Dept of Bio-behavioral Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *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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