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Adaptive Personality Traits and Psychosocial Correlates among Living Kidney Donors

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2017
Since living kidney donors have repeatedly been shown to be mentally more healthy compared to the general population, they might also exhibit more adaptive personality characteristics.
Iris Pollmann, Faikah Gueler, Marie Mikuteit, Marie Mikuteit, Marie Mikuteit, Mariel Nöhre, Nicolas Richter, Karin Weissenborn, Martina de Zwaan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Operative Complications in Living Liver Donors: A Single-Center Experience in China. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The gap between the growing demand for available organs and the cadaveric organs facilitates the adoption of living donor liver transplantation. We retrospectively identified and evaluated the post-operative complications as per the modified Clavien ...
Zhongquan Sun, Zhiyong Yu, Songfeng Yu, Jihao Chen, Jingqiao Wang, Cheng Yang, Mengmeng Jin, Sheng Yan, Mangli Zhang, Min Zhang, Shusen Zheng   +10 more
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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, Anis Rabbani Nourani, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Dima Ezmigna, Tarig Ali‐Dinar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reasons for Renal Donation among Living Unrelated Renal Donors in Khuzestan Province, Southwestern Iran

International Journal of Organ Transplantation Medicine, 2013
Background: The shortage of living-related and cadaveric donors lead to living-unrelated kidney transplant in Iran.Objective: We conducted this study to determine the motivations for unrelated-living kidney donation in Khuzestan province, southwestern ...
SS Beladi Mousavi, MJ Alemzadeh Ansari, A Parsi, E Kiani, Marzieh Beladi Mousavi   +4 more
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Psychosocial impact of living-related kidney transplantation on donors and partners [PDF]

, 2018
Living-related kidney transplantation (LRKT) is an option for children with end-stage renal failure. In addition to medical concerns, there is uncertainty about the psychological impact of living-related donation on parent donors and families.
Kemper, Markus, Landolt, Markus, Laube, Guido, Neuhaus, Thomas, Wartmann, Matthias, Weber, Markus   +5 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender disparity in living organ donation: a qualitative analysis of experiences and perceptions of female donors in Pakistan

BMJ Open
Objectives This study aims to explore and analyse the interplay of sociocultural, psychological and institutional factors, gender roles and power dynamics in shaping the decision-making processes and experiences of living kidney and liver donors in ...
Muhammad Ishaq, Javeria Saleem, Ruhma Binte Shahzad, Mahrukh Iqbal, Abida Tehreem, Raja Sajjad Asghar, Aleena Touqeer, Gul Mehar Javaid Bukkhari   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of Living Donors in Kidney Transplantation in Man [PDF]

, 1970
A series is presented of 238 living renal donors who have been followed for periods of from eight months to eight years. Careful selection of donors is mandatory in order to avoid postoperative mortality or morbidity. Anatomic variations which may affect
Halgrimson, CG, Ogden, D, Penn, I, Starzl, TE   +3 more
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A High‐Sensitivity Circulating Nucleic Acid Sequencing Assay for Assessing Treatment Response to Alectinib in a Pediatric Patient With ALK‐Rearranged Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Alberto D. Guerra, Nicholas F. Evageliou, Vandana Batra, Kristen L. Dalton, Stephanie Ortel, Usman Ashraf, Tricia R. Bhatti, Lisa J. States, Lea F. Surrey, Theodore W. Laetsch   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source