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K Catipović-Veselica1, S Skrinjarić, S Mrdenović
1General Hospital Osijek, Internal Clinic, Yugoslavia.
Abstract:
More than any other organ of human anatomy, the heart is symbolically charged with emotions. Introducing a foreign body into the heart, even a pacemaker, would be expected to alter, if not damage the most intimate of personal attributes, an individual's personality. Nevertheless, standard measures of emotions, administered before and after pacemaker implantation, revealed an improvement in psychological well-being in an unselected sample of 80 patients, aged 36 to 80 years. Furthermore, these results occurred whether or not patients returned to work.
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