Publications by authors named "Kirsten Horn"
Background: Specialized outpatient palliative care (SOPC) is an important component of the palliative medicine care concept in Germany. Its purpose is to improve the out-of-hospital care of patients who cannot be adequately cared for by their primary care physicians and in the setting of general outpatient palliative care (GOPC).
Methods: In this retrospective analysis of anonymized routine treatment data, we analyzed the characteristics of SOPC patients overall and with specific diseases, and depicted them both numerically and graphically.
Background: Quality of life and patient self-determination are key elements in successful palliative care. To achieve these goals, a robust prediction of the remaining survival time is useful as it can provide patients and their relatives with information for individual goal setting including appropriate priorities. The Aim of our study was to assess factors that influence survival after enrollment into ambulatory palliative care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Specialized outpatient palliative care (SAPV) is an important component in the care of people in their final days of life in Germany. The analysis of a representative cohort allows important conclusions to be drawn for improving the situation of people in palliative care in Germany.
Methods: We analyzed the routine data of 2691 palliative patients collected during the care of an SAPV team.
Concern remains regarding the possibly higher risk to living liver donors of the right lobe (RL), as compared with the left lateral segment (LLS). We studied outcomes and responses to quality of life (QOL) surveys in the two groups. From 1997 to 2004, we performed 49 living donor liver transplants (LDLTs): 33 RL and 16 LLS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConcern exists that partial liver transplants (either a living donor [LD] or deceased donor [DD] in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive recipients may be associated with an increased risk for recurrence. From 1999 to 2003, at our institution, 51 HCV-positive recipients underwent liver transplants: 32 whole-liver (WL) transplants, 12 LD transplants and 7 DD split transplants. Donor characteristics differed in that WL donors were older, and LD livers had lower ischemic times.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A series of experiments were performed to determine the local tumour control of two human squamous cell carcinoma lines in nude mice. An accelerated-fractionated radiation therapy regime is compared to a conventional-fractionated therapy regime.
Material And Methods: KB is a well established human nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma line (ATCC CCL 17).
Purpose: To evaluate the frequency and amount of displacements after repositioning a patient on the physical simulator following virtual simulation.
Material And Methods: After laser marking at the CT scanner and virtual simulation, patients were repositioned on the simulator. The isocenter obtained from the calculated table movements was checked by fluoroscopically measuring the distances to standardized anatomic landmarks and comparing them to the treatment plan.
Aim: The effect of ionizing irradiation on telomerase activity and further associated biological factors was evaluated in a human Ewing tumor xenograft model on nude mice.
Material And Methods: The human Ewing tumor cell line STA-ET-1 was established in a nude mouse model. Initially, the dose-response relationship for the tumor model was established.