Health-related quality of life in pediatric liver transplanted patients compared with a chronic liver disease group

Italian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gritti, Antonella ^a   Pisano, Simone ^b   Salvati, Tiziana ^b   Di Cosmo, Nicolina ^c   Iorio, Raffaele ^c   Vajro, Pietro ^d  

^a Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Paediatric liver transplantation; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE CH87; CHILD HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE PF50; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PEDIATRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883641790     PISSN: 17208424     EISSN: 18247288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1824-7288-39-55     Document Type: Article

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