Rehabilitation profile of kidney transplant patients

Am J Surg. 1978 Nov;136(5):614-7. doi: 10.1016/0002-9610(78)90320-3.

Abstract

The rehabilitation of 132 patients with functioning grafts six months to ten years post transplantation was examined by review of self-report questionnaires. The patients were divided into three groups according to when they underwent transplantation. Results showed 62 per cent of patients in group A (transplant received between July 1, 1973 and December 31, 1973), 69 per cent in group B (transplant received between January 1, 1971 and June 30, 1973), and 90 per cent in group C (transplant received between January 1, 1964 and December 31, 1970) were productively active in July 1974. Nearly all attained productively active rehabilitation scores by twelve months, but one-third reported they were functioning at a lower level than before their illness, and a significant number of patients with physically strenuous jobs before illness acquired sedentary jobs post transplantation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Transplantation*
  • Male
  • Massachusetts
  • Middle Aged
  • Rehabilitation*
  • Rehabilitation, Vocational
  • Time Factors
  • Transplantation, Homologous