The psychological rejection in kidney and liver transplants

Organ transplantation is an effective therapy to improve the quality of life (QoL) in chronic patients. It is still high the imbalance between the number of the patients in the waiting list and the number of available organs. It causes a long permanence in the waiting lists. For many patients, the organ transplantation is the only way to have a sufficient improvement of the quality of life and sometimes it is the only way to survive. The study of the patient’s personality thus is an important factor in order to avoid that the transplant could cause mental illness. Pre-transplantation relational, cognitive, emotional assessment can help to plan a rehabilitation in order to improve the therapy outcome. Aim of this pilot study is to investigate the possible predicting role of the psychological state (anxiety, introversion-extroversion, psychoticism, antisocial, psychophysiological disorders, fears, depression, obsessions and compulsions) in the organ graft.