Solid organ transplantation: Technical progress meets human dignity a review of the literature considering elderly patients' health related quality of life following transplantation

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-187

  Kniepeiss, Daniela ^a   Wagner, Doris ^a   Pienaar, Simon ^b   Thaler, Heinrich W ^b   Porubsky, Christian ^a   Tscheliessnigg, Karl Heinz ^a   Roller, Regina E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b AUVA Soziale Unfallversicherung   (Austria)

Author keywords

Geriatric assessment; Quality of life; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AGING; CADAVER DONOR; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; EMBASE; FRACTURE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDLINE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLYPHARMACY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 83855162895     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2011.06.003     Document Type: Review

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