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Patient and family adjustment to heart transplantation
1School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Heart transplantation is an effective treatment for end-stage cardiac disease and a major stressor to patients and their families. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on patient and family adjustment to heart transplantation during the stages from pre-transplantation to post-transplantation. Most authors indicate that patients and families adjust well to heart transplantation. Support groups are a positive resource for heart transplant patients and their families.