title: The social rehabilitation and quality of life in patients living with kidney transplants for more than 10 years.
abstract: Forty-six patients lived with kidney grafts for more than 10 years. The kidney function was excellent or good in 35 patients. Thirty-seven patients were in excellent physical and mental condition and were considered fully restored. Nine patients had disabling diseases of varying severity. Thirty-eight patients were employed and several had all their occupational education after transplantation. Nine of the 31 patients of fertile age at transplantation had born or fathered 15 normal children. Forty-six patients who lived with kidney grafts for more than 10 years were very well socially rehabilitated and had reached a quality of life quite comparable to that of people of the same age.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011788:Quality of Life; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D013548:Sweden; D013997:Time Factors