The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation

by Edited by Paula T. Trzepacz , Andrea F. DiMartini

• ISBN13: 9780521553544
• ISBN10: 0521553547
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Over the past forty years transplantation has developed from a laboratory based experimental procedure to a clinical commonplace. Transplantation raises issues of patient screening and selection, quality of life for recipients, living donors and their families, cognitive changes associated with transplantation, ethical considerations, and the impact of immunological and pharmacological changes associated with the procedure. This complex of issues affects clinicians from a wide range of disciplines and is the focus of consultation-liaison psychiatry and this book. Pittsburgh, where many of the contributors are based, was and is still a pioneering center for organ transplantation. Dr. Thomas Starzl, who gives an overview of the field, is one of the founding fathers of transplantation surgery.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	ix
The mystique of transplantation: biologic and psychiatric considerations	1	(20)
Thomas E. Starzl
Psychosocial screening and selection of candidates for organ transplantation	21	(21)
James L. Levenson
Mary Ellen Olbrisch
Psychosocial issues in living organ donation	42	(25)
Galen E. Switzer
Mary Amanda Dew
Robert K. Twillman
Quality of life in organ transplantation: effects on adult recipients and their families	67	(79)
Mary Amanda Dew
Jean M. Goycoolea
Galen E. Switzer
Aishe S. Allen
Quality of life of geriatric patients following transplantation: short-and long-term outcomes	146	(18)
Maria Paz Gonzalez
Abraham Sudilovsky
Julio Bobes
Andrea F. DiMartini
Cognitive assessment in organ transplantation	164	(23)
Ralph E. Tarter
JoAnn Switala
Pharmacologic issues in organ transplantation: psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatric medication side effects	187	(27)
Paula T. Trzepacz
Babu Gupta
Andrea F. DiMartini
Alcoholism and organ transplantation	214	(25)
Andrea F. DiMartini
Paula T. Trzepacz
Ethics and images in organ transplantation	239	(16)
Grant Gillett
Psychoneuroimmunology and organ transplantation: theory and practice	255	(20)
Richard Kradin
Owen Surman
Pediatric transplantation	275	(12)
Robert D. Canning
Margaret L. Stuber
Current trends and new developments in transplantation	287	(18)
Maureen Martin
Index	305