The Role of Grief and Fear in the Death of Kidney Transplant Patients

ROBERT M. EISENDRATHAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 126, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.3.381

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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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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 126 • Number 3 • September 1969

Pages: 381 - 387

PubMed: 4895562

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Published in print: September 1969

Published online: 1 April 2006

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ROBERT M. EISENDRATH

Instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and associate in surgery (psychiatry), Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.

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The Role of Grief and Fear in the Death of Kidney Transplant Patients

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