LIFE WITH A TRANSPLANTED KIDNEY
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 1 (10), 461-466
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb77996.x
Abstract
The rehabilitation of 35 patients who have survived for between 10 and 24 months after successful cadaver‐donor kidney transplantation is assessed. The factors of employment, economic circumstances, accommodation, family relationships, personal enjoyment of life and attitude to treatment are considered. Good rehabilitation has been achieved in 66% of patients, fair in 28% and poor in 6%. Prolonged in‐patient treatment after operation predisposes to poorer rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is improved by relatively longer duration of dialysis before operation, and with increasing time after transplantation. For the majority of these patients the most stressful period is that of pre‐transplantation hæmodialysis.Keywords
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