id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7cevys5zivbrzbuedjom4l25ji Samuel H. Basch Emotional dehiscence after successful renal transplantation 1980.0 9 .pdf application/pdf 7108 507 54 After 14 months of hemodialysis, accompanied by depression and poorly controlled hypertension, the patient was encouraged to accept a 4/4 HLAidentical graft from her 21-year-old brother. Severe depression, antedating her kidney transplant has persisted, and drug dependency has become a major problem. BASCH (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Consultant Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Renal Treatment Center, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, Diagnosing depression in the renal patient is difficult: the usual physiologic concomitants example, exaggerated dependency needs that accompany depression could be confused with the actual increased dependency of the renal patient. use of drugs in renal patients before discussing this Drugs that can cause psychologic disorders are used routinely in renal patients, drug abuse is ever present in renal patients. If our transplant patient could have been withdrawn from narcotics and treated for depression, psychologic testing that these patients will undermine their own treatment and that their transplants ./cache/work_7cevys5zivbrzbuedjom4l25ji.pdf ./txt/work_7cevys5zivbrzbuedjom4l25ji.txt