Post-transplantation growth among pediatric recipients of liver transplantation
| Autor: | Idris V R Evans, Carol Penovich, Yuling Wei, Katherine M. Detre, Steven H. Belle, Kris Ruppert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Adolescent Waiting Lists medicine.medical_treatment Liver transplantation Statistics Nonparametric Child Development Quality of life Risk Factors Diabetes mellitus medicine Humans Prospective Studies Child Prospective cohort study Growth Disorders Immunosuppression Therapy Transplantation Chi-Square Distribution business.industry Infant Immunosuppression medicine.disease Body Height Liver Transplantation Surgery surgical procedures operative El Niño Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Quality of Life Female business Chi-squared distribution |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Transplantation. 9:480-485 |
| ISSN: | 1399-3046 1397-3142 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2005.00326.x |
| Popis: | Improving a patient's quality-of-life (QOL) post-liver transplantation is of great importance. An aspect of improved QOL is the restoration of normal growth patterns in pediatric patients. To describe the post-transplantation growth patterns of 72 children included in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - Liver Transplantation Database (NIDDK-LTD), multilevel models were used, according to which children who waited more than a year for transplantation were smaller, compared with age and sex matched peers, at transplantation than children who waited less than a year while children who were growth retarded at transplantation experienced a larger yearly comparison height increase than children who were not growth retarded. The analysis also showed that boys older than 2 yr and younger than 13 yr at transplantation and girls older than 2 yr and younger than 11 yr at transplantation were significantly less growth retarded at transplantation than boys and girls under the age of 2 yr at transplantation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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