[Patients' quality of life after transplantation--what do we know?]

The number of organ transplantations has increased considerably over the last 30 years. The aim of organ transplantation is to increase the life expectancy of the patients and to give them a meaningful life with better quality. Transplantation of kidney, heart, lung, liver and bone marrow leads to considerably higher health-related quality of life. If the somatic adverse reactions are controlled, quality of life in transplant recipients is reported to be almost as good as in the general population.