ArticleWorld journal of hepatology2017
Hepatic encephalopathy before and neurological complications after liver transplantation have no impact on the employment status 1 year after transplantation.
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- Cognitive Function in Liver Transplantation.Current transplantation reports · 2020Review
- Cognitive impairment after liver transplantation: residual hepatic encephalopathy or posttransplant encephalopathy?Hepatic medicine : evidence and research · 2019Article
- Cerebral metabolite alterations in patients with posttransplant encephalopathy after liver transplantation.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
aimTo investigate the impact of hepatic encephalopathy before orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and neurological complications after OLT on employment after OLT.
methodsOne hundred and fourteen patients with chronic liver disease aged 18-60 years underwent neurological examination to identify neurological complications, neuropsychological tests comprising the PSE-Syndrome-Test yielding the psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score, the critical flicker frequency and the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), completed a questionnaire concerning their occupation and filled in the short form 36 (SF-36) to assess health-related quality of life before OLT and 12 mo after OLT, if possible. Sixty-eight (59.6%) patients were recruited before OLT, while on the waiting list for OLT at Hannover Medical School [age: 48.7 ± 10.2 years, 45 (66.2%) male], and 46 (40.4%) patients were included directly after OLT.
resultsBefore OLT 43.0% of the patients were employed. The patients not employed before OLT were more often non-academics (employed: Academic/non-academic 16 (34.0%)/31
conclusionHE before and neurological complications after OLT have no impact on the employment status 12 mo after OLT. Instead younger age and employment before OLT predict employment one year after OLT.
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