The Role of Grief and Fear in the Death of Kidney Transplant Patients
Abstract
Eight out of 11 patients who died following renal transplantation were noted to have suffered a sense of abandonment by their families or to have experienced panic and a sense of pessimism about the outcome of the operation, to a degree not observed among patients who survived. The author concludes that preoperative psychotherapy to help mobilize the hopeless patient's will to live may be necessary for his survival.
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