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Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform
Published on: April 12, 2021
[Evaluation of quality of life after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation]
Qiang Tai1, Xiao-shun He, Lin-wei Wu
1Center of Organ Transplantation, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. tai2004qiang@163.com
Objective:
To evaluate the influence of simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation on the quality of life of diabetic recipients with end-stage renal disease.
Methods:
We performed a retrospective analysis of the data of diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease and evaluated the quality of life of the recipients using SF-36 health survey.
Results:
One patient died of cerebrovascular accident, and 7 patients recovered smoothly. During the follow-up lasting for a mean of 23.3 months, the blood glucose, C-peptide and creatine levels of the patients remained stable. The score of 8 domains of SF-36 of the diabetic recipient at 2 years after SPK transplantation showed a significant improvement compared with that before the operation, similar to that of Chinese normal population(P > 0.05).
Conclusions:
SPK transplantation can achieve a significant improvement of the quality of life of diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease.
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