Functional Capacity and Rehabilitation of Recipients With a Functioning Renal Allograft for Ten Years or More

Social participation and employment status after kidney transplantation: A systematic review

“…Most studies described in-and exclusion criteria for the study population (item A) and gave a satisfactory description of the definition and operationalization of the variable considering social participation, which usually was measured as employment status (item C). However, six studies did not describe educational level of the study participants (item E) [30,32,36,[38][39][40]. Furthermore, 11 studies provided insufficient information on clinical variables such as comorbidity (presence of diabetes mellitus) [29,34,35,38,40,41], type of donation (cadaveric or living) [29,35,36,41,42] and dialysis before transplantation (item G) [29,31,36,39,40,42,43].…”

“…Three studies were only identified by MEDLINE [29][30][31]. Reference checking yielded no additional publications.…”

“…In some studies students were considered as employed [32,36], but in others as unemployed [37], or they constituted a separate group [30,42]. The same applied to homemakers, sometimes marked as unemployed [37], sometimes as employed [31].…”

“…Prospective studies had a relatively short follow-up between 1 year [36,38,43] to (almost) 3 years [37,42] after transplantation, with the exception of the study of Matas et al [32] between 1 to 9 years. Of the cross-sectional studies Flechner et al [30] described employment status of patients long-term, 10 to 18 years after transplantation. Only four other studies had a longterm follow-up of more than 4 years after transplantation [29,39,44,45].…”

Long-Term Results of Renal Transplantation in Children

“…In recent years a number of centers, both pediatric [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and adult [2,3,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], have reported their experience with transplants performed in the 1960s and early 1970s, presenting data on patient and graft survival rates extending more than 10 years after transplantation, the medical complications in patients surviving more than 10 years, and the rehabilitation of these long-term survivors.This review will be concerned with the long-term results of transplantation in children. Published data and personal communications from centers where patients have been followed longer than 10 years after transplantation will be considered.…”