Liver Transplantation for Quality as well as Quantity of Life

liver transplantation for quality as well as quantity of life

Liver Transplantation for Quality as well as Quantity of Life

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Monitoring of quality of life after liver transplantation is a step toward patient centered care, but unfortunately a comprehensive and scientific instrument for this evaluation is not yet available. Background medical and mental condition of patients as well as social and economic support of the patients should be considered fo...

Quality of life following liver transplantation.

This article reviews a program of research using a newly developed questionnaire, the Quality of Life Inventory, to describe the effects of liver transplantation. Although recovery does not return to premorbid level, liver transplantation is effective in reversing cognitive, emotional, behavioral and physical capacity disturbances.

Neural Transplantation as a Strategy for Recovery of CNS Functions

Transplants of neural tissue have been used for nearly 100 years in order to clarify the mechanisms that underlie development and regeneration of the nervous system. With reports from Sweden and Mexico that autografts of adrenal medulla produce at least transient and perhaps dramatic improve­ment in patients severly disabled by Parkinson's disease, the techniques of neural transplantation have ...

Organ quality and quality of life after liver transplantation.

Not only is there a limited supply of organs for liver transplantation, but the quality of the available organs is not uniform. Risk factors such as donor age and cause of death are known to predict graft failure, but their impact on the recipient's quality of life (QOL) has not been reported. We sent a QOL survey to 299 adults at our institution who had received a liver transplant 1 to 7 years...