Cardiac transplantation (2). Psychological aspects.
In my previous article I looked at the quality of life that cardiac transplant patients have both before and after the actual operation. The quality of these patients' lives is, in nearly every case, extremely poor. Most (97%) are unable to work or even do everyday tasks such as housework, cooking and so on. A large number are housebound. Many of them confined to sleeping on the ground floor as climbing stairs is impossible to them. This, along with the knowledge that they face death without a transplant, has a profound effect on their mental state.
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