Psychological Symptoms and Quality of Life After Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation.

ABSTRACT: Patients that have undergone successful simultaneous pancreas/kidney (SPK) transplantation attain normoglycemia and are free from dialysis. However, only a minor improvement in quality of life (QOL) has been demonstrated. Here, we evaluated the role of psychological symptoms in QOL after SPK transplantation.

Methods

We assessed patients with type 1 diabetes and end-stage renal disease waitlisted for SPK transplantation (pre-SPK, n = 47), and recipients of an SPK transplant (post-SPK, n = 72). Matched patients with type 1 diabetes without end-stage renal disease were included as reference group (type 1 diabetes [T1D] reference group, n = 42). The brief symptom inventory (BSI) was used to measure psychological symptoms. The Short Form-36 (SF-36) was used to determine QOL.

Results</

SUBMITTER: Nijhoff MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7213608 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature