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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a conceptualization of the content of psychosocial screening in living organ donors. An ethical legal psychological aspects of transplantation consensus

, 2015
Across Europe, transplant centers vary in the content of the psychosocial evaluation for eligible living organ donors. To identify whether a common framework underlies this variation in this evaluation, we studied which psychosocial screening items are ...
ELPAT Psychological Care for Living Donors, Poppe, C, El Enin, H, Jung, H, Zuidema, W.c., Papachristou, C, Ismail, Sy, Timmerman, L, Busschbach, Jj, Mladenovska, D, Luchtenburg, A, Dor, F, Weimar, W, Fryda, P, Dobbels, F, Ballasté, C, Recipients Working G.r.o.u.p. Aujoulat I, BRUZZONE, Paolo, Frunza, M, Van Gogh, J, Hernández, At, van Assche, K, Codreanu, I, Massey, Ek, O'Carrol, R, Duerinckx, N, Lennerling, A, Randhawa, G, Alqurashi, M, van der Knoop, Mm, Ivanonvski, N, Recipients Working GroupAujoulat, ELPAT Psychological Care for Living Donors, Sharma, S, Warrens, An   +33 more
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Living donor liver transplantation [PDF]

HPB, 2006
The introduction of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been one of the most remarkable steps in the field of liver transplantation (LT). First introduced for children in 1989, its adoption for adults has followed only 10 years later. As the demand for LT continues to increase, LDLT provides life-saving therapy for many patients who would ...
Nadalin, S., Bockhorn, M., Malagó, M., Valentin‐Gamazo, C., Frilling, A., Broelsch, C.E.   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Pediatric Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Is Often Severe But Responsive to Siltuximab

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) is a potentially fatal immunologic disorder marked by widespread lymphadenopathy and inflammation. Siltuximab, an interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) inhibitor, is the only FDA‐approved treatment for adult patients with iMCD.
Bridget Austin, Sheila K. Pierson, Kelley C. Dacus, Mateo Sarmiento Bustamante, Saishravan Shyamsundar, Larissa Borys, Kayla McHugh, Abiola Irvine, Yoojin Jo, Adam Bagg, Mary Jo Lechowicz, Daisy Alapat, Amy Chadburn, Megan S. Lim, Gordan Srkalovic, Frits van Rhee, David C. Fajgenbaum, Joshua D. Brandstadter   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing elements of informed consent among living donors

, 2010
Living organ donors - 50% of solid organ donors in the United States - represent a unique population who accept medical risk for the benefit of another.
Matas, A J, M. Valapour, Bailey, R F, J.P. Kahn, Valapour, M, R.F. Bailey, Kahn, J P, A.J. Matas   +7 more
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Hypertension in Living Kidney Donors Has No Effect on Complement Activation and Fibrosis

Kidney & Blood Pressure Research
Introduction: In the past, elevated blood pressure was considered an exclusion criterion for living kidney donation because of concerns about premature kidney failure. Hypertension leads to complement deposits and renal fibrosis in the kidney.
Nadine Wagner, Miriam Angeloni, Fulvia Ferrazzi, Janina Müller-Deile, Maike Büttner-Herold, Kerstin Amann, Christoph Daniel, Eva Vonbrunn   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the relationship and postoperative glomerular filtration rate between the living donor and the recipients in kidney transplantation

Urological Science, 2017
Objective: This study evaluated the relationship and postoperative glomerular filtration rate (GFR) between the living donors and the recipients in kidney transplantation.
Guang-Heng Chen, Hsi-Hsien Wang, Po-Jen Hsiao, Yi-Huei Chang, Shen-Wei Li, Chi-Ping Huang, Chin-Chung Yeh, Chao-Hsiang Chang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laparoscopic living donor hepatectomy [PDF]

Korean Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, 2012
Shortage of deceased donor organs led to establishment of living donor liver transplantation. Recent reports have strongly suggested that laparoscopic approach should be the gold standard for lesions in the left lateral section. Laparoscopic living donor left lateral sectionectomy was first described in 2002.
Kim, Ki-Hun, Yu, Young-Dong, Jung, Dong-Hwan, Ha, Tae-Yong, Song, Gi-Won, Park, Gil-Chun, Hwang, Shin, Lee, Sung-Gyu   +7 more
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The Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Childhood Cancer Survival: A Population‐Based Assessment of Survival Patterns Between 2015 and 2023 in Germany

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Numerous international studies have reported declines in new cancer diagnoses, delayed diagnoses and disruptions in cancer treatment following the implementation of COVID‐19 pandemic public health measures, raising concerns that these effects may ultimately contribute to increased cancer mortality.
Friederike Erdmann, Maike Wellbrock, Javier Louro, Arndt Borkhardt, Martin Schrappe, Claudia Trübenbach, Desiree Grabow, Cécile M. Ronckers, Joachim Schüz   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embryo donation parents' attitudes towards donors : comparison with adoption [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Embryo donation produces a family structure where neither rearing parent is genetically related to the child, as in adoption. It is not known how embryo donation parents view the donors compared with how adoptive parents view the birth ...
MacCallum, Fiona
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