title: Pre-operative anxiety of recipients and donors in renal transplantation from living relatives.
abstract: The pre-operative anxiety of recipients and donors was investigated through psychiatric interviews in the case of 27 renal transplants from living relatives. The pairs of recipients and donors were divided into 3 classes, as follows: Group A (n = 8), both stable; Group B (n = 6), recipient anxiety-donor stability; and Group C (n = 13), donor anxiety-recipient stability. The recipients in Group B showed many psychiatric problems in relation to therapists and nursing staff, so that psychiatric consultations were required. For donors in Group C, such consultation was also required.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haruki
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000523:psychology*