What is it about?
Concerns have been increasing that exposure to a major surgery or trauma may negatively impact cognitive performance in children. This study has evaluated cognitive function in Korean children who received organ transplantation, and sought to identify associated clinical factors. This work supports that early and timely transplantation may be beneficial for children's intelligence.
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Why is it important?
Cognitive development after transplantation is as important as allograft function for pediatric recipients in the long term quality of life. Concern has been expressed that children exposed to chronic illness and/or major surgery may incur neurocognitive dysfunction that becomes manifest in poor school performance. There has been very few study on this issue in Northeast Asian countries. Meanwhile, our team has been performing more than 100 cases of living donor liver transplantation and 100 cases of living kidney donor transplantation per year, which makes it the most active pediatric transplantation center in Korea. As the survival outcome has been well established, we have now started to have a focus on the cognitive outcomes, especially for the pediatric recipients, and thereby designed this cross-sectional study.
Perspectives
Through this article, we hope to raise interest and support timely transplantation in children in terms of improving their quality of life.
Jiwon M Lee
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This page is a summary of: Delayed transplantation may affect intellectual ability in children, Pediatrics International, October 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ped.13369.
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