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Chronic hemodialysis and renal transplantation have become increasingly common modes of treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This increase has led to many reports about the psychological impact of these highly stressful treatment modalities. Abram and Buchanan1 reviewed seven studies of transplantation patients, and found a wide range and a varying incidence of psychiatric syndromes. Penn and co-workers2 reported that 32% of their 292 renal transplant patients had “significant psychopathology.” Anxiety, depression, and delirium were the more common diagnoses in their population, of whom seven attempted suicide (2.3%). In a more recent study, Blazer et al.3 found a 4.2% incidence of affective psychoses in 215 transplant patients, but did not report on any other psychiatric syndromes.
This work was supported in part by NIMH Training Grant MH No. 08052. This paper was presented, in part, at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Washington, D.C., March 31, 1978.
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McKegney, F.P., Runge, C., Bernstein, R., Willmuth, R. (1981). Severe Psychiatric Disorder in Dialysis—Transplant Patients. In: Levy, N.B. (eds) Psychonephrology 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0357-0_6
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