Quality of life in end-stage renal disease patients

Qualidade de vida em transplantados renais: importância do enxerto funcionante

“…6 Another factor to bear in mind is that after the introduction of more powerful immunosuppressive drugs, patient and graft survival has increased creating a new set of chronic rejection patients who restart dyalisis. 5 Restarting dialysis can also have a negative impact on the assessment of quality of life, particularly in those who used to be active transplant patients. On the other hand, those individuals who had frequent complications after their transplant may see restarting dialysis as a way of improving their quality of life.…”

“…5 The World Health Organization defined quality of life as "the individual's perception of their life status concerning the context of culture and value system in which they live and their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns". 1 It is thus a concept that entails several meanings and relates to the individual's level of satisfaction in different spheres of life.…”

“…4 The measure of quality of life in chronic degenerative disease patients has been investigated in recent years aiming at defining the changes needed for improving these patients' wellbeing and adequacy of their rehabilitation. 2,5 The purpose was to assess quality of life in a population of chronic renal transplant patients.…”

Депресија Код Болесника Лијечених Редовним Хемодијализама

“…Međutim, koncentracija hemoglobina je korelirala sa BDI skorom u negativnom smjeru, iako ta povezanost nije dostigla statističku značajnost. Povezanost anemije i kvaliteta života, kao i pshičkog statusa bolesnika koji se liječe ponavljanim dijalizama je dokazana u mnogim studijama [17,18], ali su svi bolesnici u ovoj studiji, osim jednog, u momentu ispitivanja primali redovno terapiju eritropoetinom. BDI skor je korelirao sa IPI skorom u pozitivnom smjeru.…”

Impacto da depressão e outros fatores psicossociais no prognóstico de pacientes renais crônicos

“…Todos os trabalhos revisados mostram que existe uma associação direta entre idade e mortalidade 5,[7][8][9][10]17 . Os fatores relacionados a idade que podem explicar tais achados não são difíceis de identificar: na medida em que esta aumenta, uma série de fatos ocorre concomitantemente: maior possibilidade de comorbidades, maior incidência de depressão, perdas diversas (seja de cônjuges, suporte social ou capacidade econômica), o próprio processo de envelhecimento, entre outros.…”