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Lee YS, Koh CK, Yi NJ, Suh KS, Lee KW. Does living liver donors' underestimation about surgical outcomes impact on their health-related quality of life after donation?: a descriptive cross-sectional study. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2022; 20:146. [PMID: 36280848 PMCID: PMC9594971 DOI: 10.1186/s12955-022-02055-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background In South Korea, the number of living-donor liver transplantations in 2019 was 1,188. Living liver donors (LLDs) undergo surgery and the postoperative recovery process for altruistic purposes. This study explored LLDs’ unmet expectations about surgical outcomes and examined their impact on the donors’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study utilized a self-reported survey. Data were collected at a university hospital in Seoul, South Korea. Among the 535 LLDs who underwent surgery for donation between January 2011 and March 2021, 124 participated in this study. The Korean version of the 12-item Short Form Health Survey version 2 (SF-12v2) was used to measure the HRQOL of LLDs. Unmet expectations regarding surgical outcomes were measured using four items: pain, length of hospital stay, speed of recovery, and complications. Logistic regression model was applied to determine whether the unmet expectations influence HRQOL in LLDs. Odds ratios with 95% confidence interval were used. Results The percentage of the participants who reported that their actual experiences for pain, speed of recovery, hospital stay, and complications were worse than expected were 34.7%, 22.6%, 9.7%, and 7.3%, respectively. Unmet expectations about surgical outcomes were significantly associated with physical and mental HRQOL after controlling for age, sex, education level, income, postoperative complications, recipients’ death, time since donation, and satisfaction with the decision to donate. Conclusion LLDs should be supported in obtaining more accurate and realistic information about surgical outcomes to decrease unmet expectations, which may help improve their quality of life. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12955-022-02055-0.
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- Ye Sol Lee
- grid.31501.360000 0004 0470 5905College of Nursing, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, 03080 Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.31501.360000 0004 0470 5905College of Nursing, The Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, 03080 Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.31501.360000 0004 0470 5905Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, 03080 Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.31501.360000 0004 0470 5905Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, 03080 Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.31501.360000 0004 0470 5905Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, 03080 Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Mjøen G, Maggiore U, Kessaris N, Kimenai D, Watschinger B, Mariat C, Sever MS, Crespo M, Peruzzi L, Spasovski G, Sørensen SS, Heemann U, Pascual J, Viklicky O, Courtney AE, Hadaya K, Wagner L, Nistor I, Hadjianastassiou V, Durlik M, Helanterä I, Oberbauer R, Oniscu G, Hilbrands L, Abramowicz D. Long-term risks after kidney donation: how do we inform potential donors? A survey from DESCARTES and EKITA transplantation working groups. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2021; 36:1742-1753. [PMID: 33585931 PMCID: PMC8397510 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfab035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Publications from the last decade have increased knowledge regarding long-term risks after kidney donation. We wanted to perform a survey to assess how transplant professionals in Europe inform potential kidney donors regarding long-term risks. The objectives of the survey were to determine how they inform donors and to what extent, and to evaluate the degree of variation. Methods All transplant professionals involved in the evaluation process were considered eligible, regardless of the type of profession. The survey was dispatched as a link to a web-based survey. The subjects included questions on demographics, the information policy of the respondent and the use of risk calculators, including the difference of relative and absolute risks and how the respondents themselves understood these risks. Results The main finding was a large variation in how often different long-term risks were discussed with the potential donors, i.e. from always to never. Eighty percent of respondents stated that they always discuss the risk of end-stage renal disease, while 56% of respondents stated that they always discuss the risk of preeclampsia. Twenty percent of respondents answered correctly regarding the relationship between absolute and relative risks for rare outcomes. Conclusions The use of written information and checklists should be encouraged. This may improve standardization regarding the information provided to potential living kidney donors in Europe. There is a need for information and education among European transplant professionals regarding long-term risks after kidney donation and how to interpret and present these risks.
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- Geir Mjøen
- Section of Nephrology, Department of Transplant Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Erasmus University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Medical University of Vienna, Department of Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Vienna, Austria
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
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- Hospital del Mar, Department of Nephrology, Barcelona, Spain
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- University Clinic of Nephrology, Skopje, North Macedonia
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- Technische Universität München, München, Germany
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- Hospital del Mar, Department of Nephrology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Methodological Center for Medical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Grigore T. Popa", Iasi, Romania
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- Renal Unit, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Bart's Health, NHS Trust, London, UK.,University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Medical University of Vienna, Department of Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Vienna, Austria
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Li L, Yang L, Dong C, Yang Q, Huang W, Liao T, Sun X. Psychosocial Assessment of Donors in Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review. Transplant Proc 2020; 53:3-15. [PMID: 32631582 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2020.02.150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pediatric living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is the only way to save children with end-stage liver disease. The donor for liver transplantation (LT) may have a complicated psychosocial condition. PURPOSE This review aims to identify the domains of the donor psychosocial questions that should be addressed and summarize the aspects and tools future psychosocial assessments should include. METHODS We searched the PubMed, Medline, Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases for the terms pediatric, liver transplantation, donor, and psychosocial. We used the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tool to appraise reporting quality. Two researchers independently selected the papers and performed data extraction and quality appraisal. RESULTS The articles included in this review contain 26 quantitative studies and 2 qualitative studies. The study quality was moderate to high. Donors have ambivalence, anxiety, the need for family and social support, the need for adequate information, distress, and low self-esteem during the preoperative period. In the postoperative period they have poor psychological condition, panic disorder, conversion disorder and substance use/abuse disorder, abnormal family functioning, better psychosocial outcome, or among others. The assessment methods consisted of the questionnaire survey and semi-structured interview. Among the 28 studies, 17 different psychosocial domains were mentioned. The most frequently referred to was family and social support. CONCLUSION The contents of the psychosocial assessment must include anxiety or depression, family and social support, ambivalence, information, and positive psychosocial characteristics. Assessment methods should use the questionnaire survey and semi-structured interview. According to this review, future research can develop a specific psychosocial assessment tool for pediatric LT donors.
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- Lin Li
- Department of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Health Management, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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Gülen H, Karaca A. Evaluation of the Educational Needs of Organ Donors After Transplantation Surgery. Transplant Proc 2020; 52:78-83. [PMID: 31901323 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 10/06/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study involved individuals (donors) who underwent transplant surgery and evaluated their educational requirements for meeting self-care needs in the postdischarge period. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study consisted of 73 donors who underwent surgery for organ donation in the Şişli Florence Nightingale Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul and who were intended to be discharged after the organ donation. Data were collected using the Donor Information Form and the Post-Organ Donation Educational Needs Survey, which were prepared by researchers based on literature. RESULTS The mean age of the participants was 38.86 ± 0.78 years. Of them, 54.8% were male, and 38.4% were high school graduates. All the donors (n = 73) received discharge education, and all the education was given by physicians and nurses. But, most donors (63%) stated that the discharge education was not adequate in meeting their needs. Participants received the lowest mean score (2.41 ± 1.27) on the item of "I feel calm and peaceful." The donors' mean total score on the survey was 137.81 ± 25.96 (minimum 76; maximum 170). CONCLUSION The donors' educational needs for postdischarge self-care were high. It is necessary to determine the educational needs of donors to plan the discharge education for self-care management in home care.
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- Hande Gülen
- Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Biruni University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department, İstanbul, Turkey.
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Samstein B, de Melo-Martin I, Kapur S, Ratner L, Emond J. A liver for a kidney: Ethics of trans-organ paired exchange. Am J Transplant 2018; 18:1077-1082. [PMID: 29442420 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Living donation provides important access to organ transplantation, which is the optimal therapy for patients with end-stage liver or kidney failure. Paired exchanges have facilitated thousands of kidney transplants and enable transplantation when the donor and recipient are incompatible. However, frequently willing and otherwise healthy donors have contraindications to the donation of the organ that their recipient needs. Trans-organ paired exchanges would enable a donor associated with a kidney recipient to donate a lobe of liver and a donor associated with a liver recipient to donate a kidney. This article explores some of the ethical concerns that trans-organ exchange might encounter including unbalanced donor risks, the validity of informed consent, and effects on deceased organ donation.
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- Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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