ISSN: 1305-3876
Hakkında: Özel sayılar şeklinde yayınlanır.
|
|
|
Psychiatric Aspect Of Kidney Transplantation
Dr. Selçuk KIRLIa
aPsikiyatri AD, Uludağ Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, BURSA
Diseases such as chronic renal failure which are life threatening and cause long-time incapacity, and their treatment processes are almost always accompanied by a number of psychological and psychiatric disorder processes. Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are treatment methods which are difficult to carry on. Because occupy important part of patient’s time, evoke feelings of addiction to a machine or physical interference in patient and cause lack of preceding functions of patient during treatment process. Moreover, there is no hop e for getting full recovery of health and ending these treatments. Owing to these reasons, the most commonly preferred method at the beginning or later phase of chronic renal failure is kidney transplantation if it is possible. Although kidney transplantation seems like a more accurate method, strain sources such as obtaining kidney, psychological and physical problems experienced till that period and some adaptation problems which can appear after transplantation make obligatory that a number of psychological processes are experienced together with this intervention. In this article, psychological/psychiatric disorders which are possible to be experienced by patients who are in the process of chronic renal failure and kidney transplantation will be discussed.Keywords: Chronic renal failure, kidney transplantation, psychiatryTurkiye Klinikleri J Surg Med Sci 2006, 2(21):82-86
|
|
|
|
|
