Posttraumatic stress symptoms after solid-organ transplantation: preoperative risk factors and the impact on health-related quality of life and life satisfaction

Table 4 The history of retransplantations of SOT recipients with and without posttraumatic stress syndromes

	No retransplantation		Retransplantation ^b
	n	%	N	%	p
SOT recipients with postoperative PTSS	16	84.2	3	15.8	p=0.069^a
			[One retransplantation: 2 (10.5%),
			Two retransplantations: 1 (5.3)]
SOT recipients without post-operative PTSS	103	96.3	4 (3.7%)	3.7
SOT recipients without post-operative PTSS			[One retransplantation: 4 (3.7%),
			Two retransplantations: 0 (0%)]

PTSS postoperative posttraumatic stress symptoms.
SOT solid-organ transplantation.
^a Fisher’s exact test.
^b Six liver transplant and one lung transplant recipients had a history of retransplantation.

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