Depression and Liver Transplant Survival.

Background: Patients who underwent liver transplantation and experienced clinical depression have heretofore evinced lower survival rates when compared to nondepressed counterparts.

Objective: To investigate the hypothesis that transplant patients who seek and obtain medical treatment for depression would circumvent the prior reduced survival findings.

Methods: A total of 765 patients with liver transplants were scrutinized for complications following transplantation.