title: [Family living cardiac transplantation].
abstract: Study with qualitative approach that aimed at analyzing the experience lived for family members during the process of heart transplantation of their relatives. It was carried through in the Unit of Transplantation and Heart Failure - UTIC of the Hospital of Messejana, in Fortaleza-Ceará, with seven family members. The speeches were obtained through interviews, and classified in categories: describing the occured changes, promoting the adaptation for the provision of care, and discovering and living deeply solidarity The analysis suggests that the heart transplantion generates changes, crises and moments of desestruturation, and that not only the person is shaken, but also the familiar net that make efforts to be adapted to the new situation.
authors.affiliation: Enfermeira da Unidade de Transplante do Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio-HUWC, Fortaleza, CE.
authors.forename: Lise Maria
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Pinheiro de Mattos Brito
authors.forename: Vera Lúcia
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Mendes de Paula Pessoa
authors.forename: Zélia Maria de Souza
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Araújo Santos
mesh_terms: D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic