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Our studies with children suffering from congenital heart disease were inspired by the observations made with adult patients with cardiac defects. Many authors report consistently that a certain number of adult patients show a psychotic reaction after cardiac surgery in the pattern of the “exogener Reaktionstyp Bonhoeffer” [4, 5, 7, 8]. This postoperative delirium or “cardiac psychosis” presents mainly as a syndrome of disorientation, visual and auditory illusions and hallucinations, and paranoid ideas. In addition Meyendorf [8] enumerates the following characteristics:
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The delirium normally occurs between the 3rd and 6th day after operation.
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Its duration normally varies between 3 and 7 days.
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It occurs significantly more often after open-(26%) than after closed-heart surgery (17.4%).
The reported data were gained in two studies for a final examination in psychology (Diplom-arbeiten) at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich in 1978
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Jänsch, G., Bühlmeyer, K., Meyendorf, R., Sebening, F., Tacke, E., Tröndle, C. (1982). Psychiatric Complications in Children After Open-Heart Surgery. In: Becker, R., Katz, J.M., Polonius, MJ., Speidel, H. (eds) Psychopathological and Neurological Dysfunctions Following Open-Heart Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68610-8_22
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