Pre-admission quality of life as predictor of outcome after acute care: the role of emotional well-being.

Purpose: We sought to investigate whether pre-admission quality of life could act as a predictor of mortality among acutely ill patients, and which dimension of QOL has the greater impact on outcomes.

Methods: Prospective cohort study including patients admitted to an acute medical unit of Rabat Ibn Sina University Hospital, Morocco, between June and September 2014. Characteristics of patients were recorded at admission.

[Transplantation and tumors of the kidney].

The authors report the case of a woman who was transplanted with a cadaveric kidney. It was a cyst on the kidney; a biopsy was performed: it was a carcinoma. The transplanted kidney was removed.