Obsessive-compulsive disorder as a risk factor in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Psychological factors in patients after heart surgery have produced many researches in the past decade.1-4 Most of the past studies have concerned with investi-gating the effect of depression and anxiety on the out-come of cardiac problems such as coronary artery bypass surgery,5,6 but the present study concerned with: 1) investigating distress in patients after im-plantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD); and 2) in-vestigating relationship between psychological fac-tors and coronary events such as myocardial infarc-tion, angina pectoris and cardiac death. Thirty six patients (21 men and 15 women, between age of 50-78 years), that underwent recent (one month earlier) ICD in Tehran Heart Hospital (Iran) were en-rolled. Patients were evaluated both at the initial evalu-
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Authors: K Banihashemian, M K Fakhri, M Moazzen
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1958574904