POS-803 The Adolescent Transplant Patient and Family and Peer Relationships

Abstract

Regardless of what age a patient receives a kidney, liver or heart transplant, as an adolescent they have a 20% higher risk of organ rejection and loss of their organ than other sex and socioeconomic matched age groups 1. Adolescence are a unique period in development involving physical, hormonal, social and intellectual changes all which affect health outcomes2.