PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AND ORGAN-TRANSPLANTATION

Mood and anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric conditio ns in organ transplantation. Risk factors for these disorders in trans plant populations include psychiatric history and gender, and may also include social supports and coping style. There is consistent evidenc e that mental health outcomes, both diagnosable disorder and psychiatr ic symptom levels, improve from pretransplant to post-transplant. Howe ver, follow-up periods have generally been brief. There is little evid ence as to whether psychiatric morbidity rates and risk factors change in the extended years post-transplant. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:621-82 6. (C) 1998 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.