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Adherence in Pediatric Transplant Recipients

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Poor adherence to immunosuppressive medication is a major contributor to the high graft failure rates observed in young people. This chapter reviews the factors that influence adherence, the strengths and limitations of the different methods of measuring adherence, and possible strategies to improve adherence. Interventions at the level of the transplant program as well as patient-level interventions are considered.

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  2. Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

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  3. Department of Nephrology, Akron General Medical Center at Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Akron Children’s Hospital, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  4. Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India

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Foster, B.J. (2023). Adherence in Pediatric Transplant Recipients. In: Shapiro, R., Sarwal, M.M., Raina, R., Sethi, S.K. (eds) Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6909-6_13

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