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Adherence in liver transplant recipients: Adherence in Liver Transplant Recipients by Patrizia Burra; Giacomo Germani; Francesca Gnoato; Silvia Lazzaro; Francesco Paolo Russo; Umberto Cillo; Marco Senzolo is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Adherence to a medical regimen has been defined as the extent to which a patient's behavior coincides with clinical prescriptions. In liver transplant patients, adherence to immunosuppressive therapy and to medical indications in general is crucial for short-and long-term outcomes. Nonadherence to immunosuppression carries a risk of graft rejection and potential graft loss, whereas nonadherence to general medical indications (eg, avoiding alcohol intake and smoking after transplantation) may be associated with other complications such as de novo tumors and increasing health care costs. Among adult liver transplant patients, the rate of nonadherence to immunosuppressive drugs ranges from 15% to 40%, whereas the rate of nonadherence to clinical appointments ranges from 3% to 47%. The wide range of reported rates is due to different definitions of the term nonadherence and the variety of methods used to measure adherence in the medical literature. Nonadherence seems to be nearly 4 times higher in pediatric and adolescent patients versus adult transplant recipients. Several nonadherence risk factors, such as high medication costs, psychiatric disorders, the conviction that the medicati

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Author

Patrizia Burra; Giacomo Germani; Francesca Gnoato; Silvia Lazzaro; Francesco Paolo Russo; Umberto Cillo; Marco Senzolo

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)