Publications by authors named "Dorothea Stark Kent"
Article Synopsis
- * The study involved 62 patients who completed assessments for pain, anxiety, depression, and liver-specific health-related quality of life (HRQL); results showed that depression was a significant predictor of both pain severity and interference.
- * There is a strong relationship between mental health (anxiety and depression) and HRQL, suggesting that addressing mental health conditions in these patients could enhance their overall well-being during liver transplant evaluations.
Background: The 'gold standard' test for the indirect determination of pancreatic function status in infants with cystic fibrosis (CF), the 72-hour fecal fat excretion test, is likely to become obsolete in the near future. Alternative indirect pancreatic function tests with sufficient sensitivity and specificity to determine pancreatic phenotype need further evaluation in CF infants.
Objective: Evaluation of the clinical utility of both the noninvasive, nonradioactive C-mixed triglyceride (MTG) breath test and fecal elastase-1 (FE1) in comparison with the 72-hour fecal fat assessment in infants with CF.