Abstract | OBJECTIVES: Psychiatric comorbidities such as mood, anxiety and adjustment disorders are common among individuals seeking lung transplantation. The objective of this study is to describe the association between these disorders and length of initial hospitalization and number of hospitalizations in the first year following transplantation. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of all lung transplantation patients between January 1, 2008 and July 1, 2014 at a large academic center. We evaluated whether pretransplantation mood, anxiety or adjustment disorders were associated with length and number of hospitalizations after transplant, adjusting for age, sex, native disease, forced expiratory volume in 1 s prior to transplantation, wait list time and lung allocation score. RESULTS: CONCLUSIONS: Among the three most common pretransplantation psychiatric disorders, only anxiety disorders are associated with increased hospitalization in the first year following lung transplant. Interventions designed to better control pretransplantation and posttransplantation anxiety may be associated with less frequent hospitalization.
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Authors | Andrew M Courtwright, Stacey Salomon, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, Talya Brettler, Miguel Divo, Phillip Camp, Hilary J Goldberg, David J Wolfe |
Journal | General hospital psychiatry
(Gen Hosp Psychiatry)
2016 Jul-Aug
Vol. 41
Pg. 1-5
ISSN: 1873-7714 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 27302717
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
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Copyright | Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Topics |
- Adjustment Disorders
(epidemiology)
- Adult
- Aged
- Anxiety Disorders
(epidemiology)
- Comorbidity
- Female
- Hospitalization
(statistics & numerical data)
- Humans
- Lung Transplantation
(statistics & numerical data)
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mood Disorders
(epidemiology)
- Retrospective Studies
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