Mental Health and Transplantation: Challenges and Solutions
A special issue of Transplantology (ISSN 2673-3943).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 22582
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transplant; mental health; addictions; alcohol use disorders; cannabis use disorders
2. Member of Research Institute IDIBAPS (Institut d’Investigacio Biomedica Augusto Pi i Sunyer), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: neuropsychiatry; psychological and psychiatric issuess in organ transplantation
Interests: transplant; mental health; addictions; alcohol use disorders; cannabis use disorders
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mental and physical health are interrelated in a complex way. About 10% of physical health is explained by past mental health and vice versa, in a bidirectional relationship. Psychological and social assessment is a relevant aspect covered in evaluation protocols for high complexity intervention such as functional neurosurgery (e.g., epilepsy, Parkinson disease) or transplantation (e.g., liver, heart). Mental health impacts on several transplantation outcomes: 1) adherence to immunosuppressive drugs and healthy lifestyles; 2) early and late complications (graft rejection, cancer, hospitalizations, etc.); 3) quality of life; 4) survival. Mental health includes severe mental health disorders, substance use disorders including alcohol and tobacco, personality traits and coping strategies, organic mental disorders (e.g., adverse reactions to medications, delirium, etc.), transplantation and disease as life-event with impact on mental health, etc.
Thus, the evaluation of mental health before transplantation is a key point in order to ensure the short-term and long-term success of this complex intervention. However, management of mental health issues during and after transplantation is also fundamental. Identifying candidates at risk of mental health complications before, during or after transplantation, and implementing strategies to help patients face these complications, allows us to widen our indications for transplantation.
This Special Issue calls for manuscripts that identify challenges and potential solutions to mental health assessment and management at any stage of transplantation. We expect that the body of evidence originated by this Special Issue will aid in expanding the indications of transplantation.
Dr. Hugo Lopez-Pelayo
Dr. Luis Pintor
Dr. Anna Lligoña
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Mental health
- Transplantation
- Substance use disorder
- Alcohol use disorder
- Coping strategies
- Organic mental disorders
- Quality of life
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