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Articles tagged "Quality of life"

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Immunosuppression on Quality of Life among HLA-Identical Living Kidney Recipients at UCLA – A Qualitative Study

    E. L. Wood1, S. George2, N. Kogut1, E. Lum, MD3, J. L. Veale1

    1Urology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 3Medicine, Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Tolerant kidney transplant recipients (off immunosuppression) report higher self-rated quality of life and a lower symptom burden compared to standard living recipients when using…
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