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37 &#40;30 LT recipients and 7 LT candidates&#41; completed the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 &#40;MOS SF-36&#41;&#44; the London Chest Activity of Daily Living &#40;LCADL&#41; questionnaire and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale &#40;HADS&#41;&#46; The lung transplant recipients &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;30&#41; were grouped according to the time of transplant &#91;&#60;1&#46;5 years post-LT &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;5&#41;&#59; 1&#46;5&#8211;3 years post-LT &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;6&#41;&#59; &#62;3 years post-LT &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;19&#41;&#93;&#46; The parameters assessed in the questionnaires were compared between the groups pre- and post-transplant&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Among all patients&#44; COPD &#40;27&#37;&#41;&#44; silicosis &#40;19&#37;&#41;&#44; hypersensitivity pneumonitis &#40;19&#37;&#41; 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Lung transplant: Complications and quality of life
A.V.. Cardosoa,
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Corresponding author. car_veronica@sapo.pt
, H.N.. Bastosa,b,c, C.. Damasa
a Pulmonology Department, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal
b Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
c ICVS/3B's – PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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which are the major cause for decreased patient life expectancy&#46;<a href="&#35;bib12" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> In order to prevent or stabilize these complications&#44; LT recipients maintain a high level of immunosuppressants for life&#46; In turn&#44; the immunosuppressive drugs induce different disorders&#44; like arterial hypertension&#44; chronic kidney failure&#44; diabetes&#44; hyperlipidemia&#44; osteoporosis&#44; and infections &#40;which are the second cause of mortality after BOS&#41;&#44; and increase the risk of malignancies&#44; mainly skin cancers&#44; post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders and Kaposi&#39;s sarcoma&#46;<a href="&#35;bib13" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The authors here describe the data about complications related to LT and QoL of patients followed in LT outpatient clinic of Centro Hospitalar S&#227;o Jo&#227;o&#46; Of the 83 patients&#44; 37 &#40;30 LT recipients and 7 LT candidates&#41; completed the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 &#40;MOS SF-36&#41;&#44; the London Chest Activity of Daily Living &#40;LCADL&#41; questionnaire and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale &#40;HADS&#41;&#46; The lung transplant recipients &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;30&#41; were grouped according to the time of transplant &#91;&#60;1&#46;5 years post-LT &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;5&#41;&#59; 1&#46;5&#8211;3 years post-LT &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;6&#41;&#59; &#62;3 years post-LT &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;19&#41;&#93;&#46; The parameters assessed in the questionnaires were compared between the groups pre- and post-transplant&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Among all patients&#44; COPD &#40;27&#37;&#41;&#44; silicosis &#40;19&#37;&#41;&#44; hypersensitivity pneumonitis &#40;19&#37;&#41; 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particularly in the physical function dimension &#40;84&#46;0&#160;&#177;&#160;17&#46;1&#37; vs&#46; 29&#46;3&#160;&#177;&#160;22&#46;4&#37;&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;0&#46;01&#41;&#44; physical role difficulty dimension &#40;90&#46;0&#160;&#177;&#160;22&#46;3&#37; vs&#46; 21&#46;4&#160;&#177;&#160;39&#46;3&#37;&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;0&#46;04&#41; and emotional role difficulty dimension &#40;93&#46;4&#160;&#177;&#160;14&#46;7 vs&#46; 28&#46;6&#160;&#177;&#160;40&#46;5&#37;&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#61;&#160;0&#46;04&#41;&#46; No statistically significant difference was found among recipients grouped by time since their transplant&#44; but there is a downward trend in QoL over the years &#40;<a href="&#35;f0005" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs">Figure 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><a name="f0005" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"></a><p class="elsevierStylePara"><img src="320v21n04-90433953fig1.jpg" alt="Quality of life of candidates and lung transplant recipients&#46; 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in recipients vs&#46; 100&#37; in candidates&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#160;&#60;&#160;0&#46;001&#41;&#44; with no differences among the three groups after transplantation&#46; No statistically significant difference was found in levels of anxiety&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Therefore&#44; the improvement of the QoL of LT recipients is highest early after transplantation&#44; with a slight but not significant decrease over the years&#46; This may reflect the accumulation of complications with time after LT&#44; which affect physical activity&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">This analysis had two essential limitations&#58; &#40;1&#41; the small sample size and &#40;2&#41; it is not a longitudinal pre- and post-transplant evaluation of patients QoL&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Santana&#44; et al&#46; described the effects of QoL measures in the management of LT patients&#44; namely in lung allocation decisions&#44; and advised their use in clinical routine&#46;<a href="&#35;bib10" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> In addition&#44; improving QoL appears as the primary goal of the LT for diseases such COPD &#40;the major common indication to LT&#41;&#44; where a survival advantage has not yet been proven&#46;<a href="&#35;bib14" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> Therefore&#44; we highlight the importance of including QoL measures in assessing the outcomes in LT&#46;</p><a name="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"></a><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conflicts of interest</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Corresponding author&#46; car&#95;veronica&#64;sapo&#46;pt</p>"
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