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Articles tagged "Quality of life"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Patients’ Perceptions of Kidney Transplant Failure and Transitioning to Dialysis

    E. Ramos1, C. Gu2, C. Hanson2, K. Abdel-Kader3, K. Bonnet2, D. Schlundt2, E. Gordon4, B. P. Concepcion3

    1Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 3Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 4Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Approximately 5,000 US kidney transplant recipients return to dialysis each year due to allograft failure. Understanding how kidney allograft failure and transitioning to chronic…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Renal Transplant is Safe in Septuagenarians

    P. Serrano Rodriguez, J. Vonderau, K. Szempruch, C. S. Desai

    Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

    *Purpose: With increasing life expectancy, there has been increase in transplant rates amongst elderly recipients who often have more comorbidities than younger recipient. The aim…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Pill Burden in Belatacept versus Tacrolimus-Based Immunosuppression

    S. Gattis, L. Lakhani, A. Basu

    Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA

    *Purpose: Medication non-adherence is a major barrier amongst renal transplant recipients, and improvement can be seen after reduction in pill burden. Belatacept versus tacrolimus-based immunosuppression…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of 4-weeks of Supervised Exercise on Frailty and Lower Extremity (LE) Function in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

    E. Lorenz, L. Hickson, R. Weatherly, K. Thompson, M. Hogan, C. Kennedy

    Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: Although frailty is a modifiable risk factor for morbidity and mortality among kidney transplant (KT) candidates, the optimal duration of effective prehabilitation interventions is…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Awareness of Teratogenic Potential of Mycophenolic Acid Products and Pregnancy Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients

    S. Rao1, L. Coscia2, A. Yusuf2, S. Constantinescu3, M. J. Moritz4

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

    *Purpose: In 2006, Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPRI) reported teratogenic effects of mycophenolic acid products (MPA) in pregnancies in transplant recipients. This resulted in black…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    The Rate of Hospitalization Among Patients with Cirrhosis is More Than Twice as High as Patients Over 85 Years

    N. R. Mazumder1, K. Guo2, L. Zhao3, A. Kho1, K. Walters4, T. S. Carey4, C. Loftus1, D. P. Ladner1

    1Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 2Biostatistics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 3Biostatistcs, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 4University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

    *Purpose: Cirrhosis is a common disease however it is understudied because population data on patients with cirrhosis is lacking. While the risk of hospitalization in…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Graft Loss in Adolescent and Young Adult Generation After Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: A Single Center Experience in Japan

    Y. Aoki, Y. Hamasaki, M. Muramatsu, J. Hashimoto, M. Kubota, S. Shishido, K. Sakai

    Nephrology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    *Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients of all ages may have difficulty adhering to a strict treatment plan, adolescents and young adults are at particularly high risk…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Pregnancy Outcomes in 108 Heart Transplant Recipients

    L. A. Coscia1, A. Yusuf1, S. Rao2, S. Constantinescu3, M. J. Moritz4

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

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe 185 pregnancies in 108 heart transplant recipients.*Methods: Data regarding conceptions occurring between June 1987 and Dec…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of the Kidney Transplant Journey on Patient’s and Parent’s Identities and Self-Management

    J. C. Dunbar1, E. E. Bascom2, W. Pratt2, J. Snyder2, J. M. Smith3, A. H. Pollack3

    1University of Washington Information School, Seattle, WA, 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 3Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA

    *Purpose: Describe the experiences of pediatric patients and their families after kidney transplant. Our qualitative study aimed to understand (1) how these individuals describe and…
  • 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…
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