the quality of life of 50 end stage renal disease (esrd) patients on hemodialysis was evaluated before and after kidney transplantation (ktx). mean duration of the patients' hemodialysis was 3 years and mean postoperative period was 2.4 years when tested. common problems of such patients such as depression, sleep disorders, energy pattern disruption, sex-life difficulties, and appetite dis...

Ten years ago, Dobrushin [1] proved a beautiful result showing that under suitable hypotheses, a statistical mechanical lattice system interaction has a unique equilibrium state. In particular, there is no long range order, etc. see [6,7] for related material, Israel [4] for analyticity results and Gross [3] for falloff of correlations. There does not appear to have been systematic attempts to ...

BACKGROUND Different ideas of "good death" may influence the effectiveness of end-of-life care in patients with different ethos. This study aimed to identify the influence of believing in individual life after death on "good death" models. METHODS Semi structured-interview to 8 persons, 4 believers and 4 non-believers in individual life after death from the general Italian population. Analysi...