TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Psychosocial and Psychiatric Evaluation of Transplant Recipients A1 - Huremović, Damir A2 - Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo PY - 2023 T2 - Molmenti’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management, 2e AB - Over the past several decades, organ transplant procedures have advanced from experimental grounds into medical mainstream as a well-established set of clinical procedures. While there have been tremendous advancements in science and techniques, with the number of transplants approaching a figure of 1 million,1 several factors still impose significant constraints on the transplant process. One is embodied by the fact that, despite the closing gap, the need for organs (almost 110,000 in 2019)2 still by far exceeds the number of organs available for transplant (almost 40,000 transplants in 2019),2 and the other is subsumed in the sometimes onerous regimen of medications and follow-ups needed to maintain the precarious balance between the host and the graft. A vast majority of organs transplanted in the United States includes kidneys, followed by liver and heart transplants. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1194179460 ER -