PubMed ID:
16048600
Public Release Type:
Journal
Publication Year: 2005
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, PA 15261, USA. evansi@edc.pitt.edu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3046.2005.00326.x
Authors:
Belle SH,
Detre KM,
Evans IV,
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Liver Transplantation Database Team,
Penovich C,
Ruppert K,
Wei Y
Studies:
Liver Transplantation Database
,
Liver Transplantation Database Follow Up
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.