Drug side effects a key factor in reduced quality of life for ki...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 11/22/2009 - 23:00

(Wiley-Blackwell) Researchers surveyed 55 patients who had received a kidney transplant in the last year and 105 who had had surgery in the last one to three years to assess their quality of life.

They discovered that patients had higher levels of social support, felt more positive and were able to cope better in the first year after surgery than one to three years post transplant.

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