Quality of Life and Psychosomatics In Mechanical Circulation • The Heart Transplantation

Quality of Life and Psychosomatics In Mechanical Circulation • The Heart Transplantation / edited by Wolfgang Albert, Anneli Bittner, Roland Hetzer.

Advances in heart surgical treatment have been impressive in the last 15 years. In end-stage heart disease, procedures are now performed routinely which were only experimental one or two decades ago. Heart transplantation has become a well-established procedure. According to the Gen­ eral Registry o...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Albert, Wolfgang (Editor), Bittner, Anneli (Editor), Hetzer, Roland (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Steinkopff : Imprint: Steinkopff, 1998.
Edition:1st ed. 1998.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Psychiatry.
Cardiac surgery.
Surgical transplantation.
Psychotherapy   .
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Table of Contents:
  • Mechanical circulatory support until heart transplantation
  • Psychiatric and psychosocial issues and intervention among ventricular assist device patients
  • Psychiatric-psychosomatic disorders and coping mechanisms during mechanical circulatory support with the biventricular Berlin Heart Assist Device
  • The impact of physical complaints and quality of life in patients after heart transplantation
  • Health related quality of life of heart-lung transplant patients
  • Neuropsychological function before and after heart transplantation
  • The emotional state of the individual after heart-transplant
  • Body image and subjective anatomy
  • Coping with heart disease — assessment and applications
  • Psychosomatic therapy in cardiology and heart-transplant medicine
  • Social and individual health aspects in transplantation medicine
  • Panel Discussion.

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