Long-term quality of life for transplant recipients

Predictors of long-term health-related quality of life in adolescent solid organ transplant recipients.

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify prospective predictors of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for adolescent solid organ (kidney, liver, heart, lung) transplant recipients. METHODS Data regarding demographics, individual/transplant characteristics, and environmental characteristics were gathered from 66 adolescent transplant recipients and their families at baseline and used to pre...

[Indications and long-term outcomes for solid organ transplant. Quality of life in solid organ transplant recipients].

Organ transplant constitutes one of the most encouraging advances in the history of the medicine. The organ transplants that were a distant challenge in the seventies currently are a routine procedure in the medical practice that has contributed to extending survival and quality of life in the general population. Spain has reached the highest rate for donation and transplants per one million in...

health-related quality of life in kidney transplant recipients

Health-Related Quality of Life in Kidney Transplant Recipients

I have read with interest the paper of Tayyebi et al. (1) and I am impressed by the efforts that the authors made to elaborate the Iranian version of the kidney transplant questionnaire (KTQ-25) and I would like to congratulate the authors for the effect of their work. Renal transplantation is a method that improves both patient survival and quality of life, and is cost-effective in patients wi...

Quality of life in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients.

BACKGROUND Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK Tx) allows dialysis and insulin therapy to be discontinued and improves the complications of diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM1). This study measure quality of life (QoL) in SPK transplant recipients and determine if there are differences in QoL between these patients and those with DM1 in renal replacement therapy (RRT). METHODS Short F...