Is there an association between immunosuppressant therapy medication adherence and depression, quality of life, and personality traits in the kidney and liver transplant population?

Objectives: To measure the association of transplant patients' personality, depression, and quality of life with medication adherence in kidney and liver transplant recipients.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of liver and kidney transplant recipients greater than 1 year post-transplant was conducted. Patients' adherence with medications was assessed using the Immunosuppressive Therapy Adherence Scale.

Retrospective evaluation of donor pain and pain management after laprascopic nephrectomy.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate donor pain and pain management beginning immediately postoperatively until hospital discharge.

Methods: All kidney donors were included from 2008 and 2009. Demographic data, operative data, pain scores in the postanesthesia care unit, and visual analog pain scale (VAS) scores were collected for each patient.

Professions, families, and control in the management of the cadaver organ donor.

In times of medical crisis, control over the treatment process is vested with the patient's attending physician. The role of the other members of the treatment team is clearly supporting of the physician while the patient's family exercises little or no influence over the treatment process. In certain "rare" events, the traditional roles are suspended and control of the process is, at lest temporarily, shifted to an outside group of health professionals.