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reactions (Post-traumatic symptom scale-PTSS-10; State anxiety scale; Beck's helplessness scale and Scale of somatic symptoms). Factor analysis revealed the existence of five major coping styles: Optimism, Information-seeking, Confrontative coping, Escape-Avoidance and Hyperactivity. Several multiple regression analysis has been done with coping styles as predictors and posttraumatic symptoms, anxiety, helplessness and somatic symptoms, respectively, as dependent variables. Results: In all four regression analysis aforementioned set of predictors accounted between 17, 4% and 22, 6 % of variance in dependent variables. Among coping styles the most important predictor was the Confrontative coping. Escape-Avoidance plays some role in reducing anxiety and Optimism in reducing helplessness. Conclusions: Confrontative coping (loss of control and acting out) has strong and systematic influence on intensity of traumatic reactions.

Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) was combined with antirejection therapy in four diabetic recipients of pancreas and kidney grafts with persisting hyperglycemia due to pancreas rejection. In three of the patients, full function of the pancreas was restored after as many as 40, 86, and 139 days of CSII. In another patient, the dose of insulin was halved, and his graft function was classified as partial. Pancreas rejection treated without CSII was reversible only in one of four other recipients. We conclude that restoration of the function of a pancreas graft damaged by rejection can be achieved even after a long period with the help of CSII therapy.