Among highlights from the latest Annotations review
Even though patients with severe psychiatric illness are often excluded from transplant programs, those with mild conditions do not show any significant change in survival outcome.
This is one conclusion from a study highlighted by Sarah Andrews, MD, in the latest quarterly publication of Annotations here on the ACLP website.
Dr. Andrews recounts findings from Comorbid psychiatric disorders and long-term survival after liver transplantation in transplant facilities with a psychiatric consultation-liaison team: a multicenter retrospective.
In liver transplant recipients, various psychiatric disorders have been identified as worsening prognosis. However, little is known about how the presence of overall comorbid disorders affect recipients’ survival rates, say the authors.
They identified 1,006 recipients who underwent liver transplantation between September 1997 and July 2017 across eight transplant facilities with a C-L Psychiatry team. There was “no significant effect of overall comorbid psychiatric disorders on prognosis.”