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[Psychological impact of congenital heart failure]
1Klinik für Kinderkardiologie und angeborene Herzfehler, Deutsches Herzzentrum München. Storkebaum@dhm.mhn.de
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Survival rates for congenital heart defects are improving, yet psychosocial challenges like depression and relationship issues significantly impact young adults, their families, and healthcare providers.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Psychology
- Sociology
Abstract:
Survival rates of patients with congenital heart defects are getting better, but society and the medical system are more and more confronted with the psychosocial problems of those young adults with congenital diseases. Psychosomatic chronification should be added to the chronical somatic illness, success in school education, job and survival have psychic impacts. Depression, neuroticisms and problematic relationships load a burden on patients and their environment as well as on doctors and nurses.