Patients benefit - Partners suffer? The impact of heart transplantation on the partner relationship

Transplant International

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-41

  Bunzel, Brigitta ^a   Laederach Hofmann, Kurt ^b   Schubert, Maria Theresia ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heart transplantation, partner relationship; Partner relationship, heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; COMMUNICATION; CORONARY DISEASE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPOUSES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0032972443     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001470050182     Document Type: Article

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