Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation: What Remains? Long-term Emotional Sequelae in Patients and Spouses

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 384-389

  Bunzel, Brigitta ^a   Laederach Hofmann, Kurt ^b   Wieselthaler, Georg ^a   Roethy, Wilfried ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SPOUSE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPOUSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947636143     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.01.025     Document Type: Article

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