Health-related quality of life in pediatric liver transplanted patients compared with a chronic liver disease group
| Autor: | Raffaele Iorio, Antonella Gritti, Nicolina Di Cosmo, Pietro Vajro, T Salvati, Simone Pisano |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Antonella, Gritti, Pisano, Simone, Tiziana, Salvati, Nicolina Di Cosmo, Iorio, Raffaele, Pietro, Vajro |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Quality of life
Graft Rejection Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Chronic liver disease Severity of Illness Index Chronic disease Statistics Nonparametric End Stage Liver Disease Reference Values Surveys and Questionnaires Severity of illness medicine Paediatric liver transplantation Humans Child Survival rate Retrospective Studies Health related quality of life business.industry Research Liver Diseases Graft Survival Case-control study Mean age Retrospective cohort study medicine.disease humanities Liver Transplantation Survival Rate Treatment Outcome Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Female business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Italian Journal of Pediatrics |
| ISSN: | 1824-7288 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1824-7288-39-55 |
| Popis: | Background Achieving a good health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is currently one of the main aims in long term survival of liver transplanted children (PLT). Purpose of our study is to compare HRQoL of PLT patients (N = 33, mean age 12.8 y) vs. sex and age matched patients with compensated and clinically stable chronic liver disease (CLD) (N = 25, mean age 11.9 y). Methods HRQoL was measured from both patient and parental perspectives using the CHQ-CF87 and CHQ-PF50 questionnaires, respectively. Results General Health Perception scores of PLT subjects resulted significantly lower than those of CLD both at self- and parental report (p |
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