Psychosocial Changes 6 Months after Face Transplantation

Changes in psychosocial adjustment after renal transplantation.

The psychological aspects of transplantation were studied in 29 children and adolescents with functioning renal transplants. Most parents rated their child's physical health as considerably improved after transplantation. They also noted improvements in the child's behaviour and in the quality of family life. When compared with a sample of children being treated by hospital haemodialysis, child...

Psychosocial determinants of quality of life 6 months after transplantation: longitudinal prospective study.

OBJECTIVES We sought to investigate the psychosocial determinants of quality of life at 6 months after transplantation. METHODS A sample of liver transplant candidates (n = 60), composed of consecutive patients (25% with familial amyloid polyneuropathy [FAP]) attending outpatient clinics was assessed in the pretransplant period using the Neo Five Factor Inventory, Hospital Anxiety and depress...

Psychosocial Outcomes after Bilateral Hand Transplantation

UNLABELLED Since the first successful hand transplantation in 1998, there have been multiple reports about surgical technique, transplant survival, and immunosuppression. However, very limited published data exist on psychosocial outcomes following hand transplantation. METHODS We report psychosocial outcomes in a patient with bilateral hand transplants at the midforearm level with serial fol...

High creatinine 6 months after renal transplant.

Prognostic utility of routine chimerism testing at 2 to 6 months after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

The utility of routine chimerism analysis as a prognostic indicator of subsequent outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) with myeloablative conditioning regimens remains controversial. To address this controversy, routine chimerism test results at 2 to 6 months after HCT with myeloablative conditioning regimens were evaluated for association with subsequent risk of c...