[A contribution to the psychopathology of patients with open heart surgery (author's transl)].
The results of a larger study of psychopathological disorders in relation to pre-operative and post-operative examined heart surgery patients, where the heart-lung machine was used, will be shown, to begin with, on 20 patients. Pre-operative examination showed quite clearly, among other things, that patients suppress obvious operation risks. General mental disorders were seen post-operative in 4 patients, and these were diagnosed as organic psychosis. A comparison between psychotic and other patients shows, among other things, that somatic predictors such as cerebral sclerosis and atrophy, or a cerebral trauma tend to promote post-operative psychosis. A releasing cause could be a cerebral hypoxia brought about by the extracorporeal blood circulation. In our opinion psychological factors can only be found in the contents of psychosis.
D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003693:Delirium / Q000209:etiology; D002549:Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000209:etiology; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006355:Heart-Lung Machine; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000209:etiology*
Zur Psychopathologie der Herzoperierten.