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Articles tagged "Quality of life"

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Cirrhotic Patients: Does Rifaximin Prevent Clostridioides Difficile Infection? A Retrospective Analysis

    J. D. Goldman, V. Aleksenko, J. L. Davila, N. A. Muhktar, K. Kowdley

    Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA

    *Purpose: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and new prevention strategies in high-risk patients are needed. Rifaximin has been…
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