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- Title
Quality of life after liver transplantation with old donor graft.
- Authors
Nascimento Flor, Maria José; Parente Garcia, José Huygens; Freire de Aguiar, Maria Isis; de Meneses Silva, João Marcos; de Almeida, Paulo César; da Silva Negreiros, Francisca Diana
- Abstract
Objective: to compare the quality of life of liver transplant patients who received liver from donor aged ≤60 or >60 years old. Methods: a prospective study with a sample of 141 recipients from liver donors aged equal to or less than 60 years and recipients of elderly donor liver, in a reference center. Authors used a tool for identification and the Short Form-36. The Student-t and Mann-Whitney tests were applied for comparison between groups. Results: there were higher levels of quality of life with a statistically significant difference: Group A in social aspect (p=0.02) and Group B >50 months of transplantation (p=0.05) in physical component summary. Conclusion: the quality of life of liver receptors from older donor livers was similar to those who received a graft from younger donors in most dimensions. Transplanting time had a positive impact on the quality of life of elderly recipients.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; COMPARATIVE studies; HEALTH surveys; LIVER transplantation; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; ORGAN donors; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; DATA analysis software; MANN Whitney U Test; OLD age
- Publication
Rev Rene, 2016, Vol 17, Issue 3, p401
- ISSN
1517-3852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15253/2175-6783.2016000300014