{"title":"Life After Kidney Transplantation: The Time for a New Narrative.","authors":"Kevin John Fowler","doi":"10.3389/ti.2025.14074","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first successful kidney transplant in December 1954 between the Herrick brothers ushered in a new field of medicine. Over the almost seventy years, thousands of lives have been saved and patient survival has improved. There is one area of kidney transplant patient care that has been overlooked. Patient quality and ability to participate in life have not been adequately studied. This is due in part to the false narrative of life after kidney transplantation. The false narrative has developed due to the patient voice not being heard due to a variety of factors. The development and implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures into clinical practice and clinical trials is the first step ensuring the patient voice is heard systematically. By enabling the patient voice to be heard, I hope this result in a new narrative that is patient centered.</p>","PeriodicalId":23343,"journal":{"name":"Transplant International","volume":"38 ","pages":"14074"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12104084/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Transplant International","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3389/ti.2025.14074","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"SURGERY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The first successful kidney transplant in December 1954 between the Herrick brothers ushered in a new field of medicine. Over the almost seventy years, thousands of lives have been saved and patient survival has improved. There is one area of kidney transplant patient care that has been overlooked. Patient quality and ability to participate in life have not been adequately studied. This is due in part to the false narrative of life after kidney transplantation. The false narrative has developed due to the patient voice not being heard due to a variety of factors. The development and implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures into clinical practice and clinical trials is the first step ensuring the patient voice is heard systematically. By enabling the patient voice to be heard, I hope this result in a new narrative that is patient centered.
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The aim of the journal is to serve as a forum for the exchange of scientific information in the form of original and high quality papers in the field of transplantation. Clinical and experimental studies, as well as editorials, letters to the editors, and, occasionally, reviews on the biology, physiology, and immunology of transplantation of tissues and organs, are published. Publishing time for the latter is approximately six months, provided major revisions are not needed. The journal is published in yearly volumes, each volume containing twelve issues. Papers submitted to the journal are subject to peer review.
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