Journal article
Psychiatric Disorders and Survival After Lung Transplantation
Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), Vol.40(4), pp.293-297
1999
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(99)71221-1
PMID: 10402873
Abstract
The 30 patients who underwent lung transplantation between 1990 and 1996 were included in this study, and data were analyzed to find predictors of 1-year survival posttransplantation. All patients were followed throughout the posttransplantation period. Fifteen patients had a pretransplantation diagnosis of an anxiety and/or depressive disorders. Of the 30 patients transplanted, 19 survived 12 months or more, and 11 died less than 12 months posttransplantation. The >12-month survival group had a mean age of 45.2 years at transplantation, compared with a mean age of 43.0 years in the <12-month group (NS). The mean Psychosocial Assessment of Candidates for Transplant score and premorbid history of smoking did not differ between the groups. The >12-month survival group had more psychiatric illness pretransplantation than the <12-month survival group (56% vs. 27%, P
<
0.05). The recipients with a psychiatric history (
N
=
15) were more likely to survive 1 year posttransplantation than the recipients without a psychiatric history (80% vs. 47%, P
<
0.05) and were not significantly different from the recipients without a psychiatric history in terms of episodes of rejection, bronchiolitis obliterans, or noncompliance with treatment. Depression and anxiety are treatable disorders that occur frequently in patients with end-stage lung disease, and a premorbid history of either did not predict a worse outcome posttransplantation in this study of lung transplantation recipients.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Psychiatric Disorders and Survival After Lung Transplantation
- Creators
- Catherine L WoodmanLois J GeistSara VanceCarolyn LaxsonKelly JonesJoel N Kline
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), Vol.40(4), pp.293-297
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0033-3182(99)71221-1
- PMID
- 10402873
- ISSN
- 0033-3182
- eISSN
- 1545-7206
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1999
- Academic Unit
- Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine; Psychiatry; Occupational and Environmental Health; Family and Community Medicine; Provost Office Administration; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094657902771
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