QUALITY-OF-LIFE CHANGES AND PSYCHIATRIC AND NEUROCOGNITIVE OUTCOME AFTER HEART AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

1 September 1992

journal article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Transplantation

Vol. 54 (3) , 444-450
https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-199209000-00012

Abstract

A prospective study compared psychiatric, neurocognitive, and quality-of-life changes of heart and liver transplant patients. The 51 heart and 61 liver transplant candidates and recipients completed the Beck depression inventory (BDI), state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI), sickness impact profile (SIP), mini-mental state (MMS), California verbal learning test (CVLT), Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST), trailmaking test (TMT), and the impact message inventory (IMI). Data were gathered before transplant and at 3-month intervals for up to 1 year after transplant. Psychometric tests scores were correlated with electroencephalograms for the liver patients. Both groups showed significant improvements after transplant in neurocognitive functioning, depressive symptoms, and quality of life.

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