title: The study of personality in renal transplant patients: possible predictor of an adequate social adaptation?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study explored the personality characteristic traits within a sample of renal transplant patients, seeking to obtain predictive index for likely clinical impacts.
  
  
  METHODS
  The personality study was performed using the Structured Clinical Interview Axis II Personality Disorders for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, text revision in 60 recipients of kidney transplantations from deceased donors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The personality trait that prevailed in the female gender was borderline, while in the male gender it appeared to be predominantly obsessive-compulsive personality trait.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The personality study proved to be a good index to predict effects on the level of social adjustment. In this way, patients who have shown pathologic personality traits can be identified early to provide adequate psychologic-psychiatric support and follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Transplantation and Advanced Technologies, University Hospital of Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Pistorio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veroux
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Corona
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sinagra
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giaquinta
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zerbo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giacchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gagliano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tallarita
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Veroux
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Pasquale
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012919:Social Behavior