Joshee, Paras, Wood, Amanda, Wood, Eleri and Grunfeld, Elizabeth (2018). Meta-analysis of cognitive functioning in patients following kidney transplantation. Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, 33 (7), 1268–1277.
Abstract
Background There is mixed evidence regarding the nature of cognitive function in patients who have undergone renal transplantation. The aim of this meta-analysis was to examine which cognitive domains are impacted following kidney transplantation and how performance compares with non-transplanted patients or healthy controls/normative data. Method A systematic search was conducted using keywords within three databases (Embase, MEDLINE and PsychINFO), yielding 458 unique studies, 10 of which met the inclusion criteria. Neuropsychological tests were grouped into nine cognitive domains and three separate analyses were undertaken within each domain: (i) within subjects pre- versus post-transplant, (ii) transplanted versus non-transplanted patients and (iii) transplanted versus healthy matched controls and standardized normative data. Results Transplanted patients showed moderate to large improvements in the domains of general cognitive status (g = 0.526), information and motor speed (g = 0.558), spatial reasoning (g = 0.376), verbal memory (g = 0.759) and visual memory (g = 0.690) when compared with their pre-operative scores. Test scores in the same five domains were significantly better in post-transplanted patients when compared with dialysis-dependant or conservatively managed chronic kidney disease patients. However, post-transplanted patients’ performance was significantly low compared with that of healthy controls (and standardized normative data) in the domains of executive functioning (g = −0.283), verbal fluency (g = −0.657) and language (g = −0.573). Conclusions Two key issues arise from this review. First, domain-specific cognitive improvement occurs in patients after successful transplantation. Nevertheless, transplanted patients still performed significantly below healthy controls in some domains. Second, there are important shortcomings in existing studies; the length of follow-up is typically short and only limited neuropsychological test batteries are employed. These factors are important in order to support the recovery of cognitive function among patients following renal transplant.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfx240 |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences |
Additional Information: | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | chronic kidney disease,cognition,dialysis,kidney transplant,systematic review |
Publication ISSN: | 1460-2385 |
Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2024 07:20 |
Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2018 08:40 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2018-07-01 |
Published Online Date: | 2017-09-07 |
Accepted Date: | 2017-06-14 |
Authors: |
Joshee, Paras
Wood, Amanda ( 0000-0002-1537-6858) Wood, Eleri Grunfeld, Elizabeth |