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Intensive medical care, cardiac surgery, and comprehensive rehabilitation have changed the natural history of some major cardiovascular diseases (valvular disease, ischaemic heart disease). The positive medical effects, however, do not always entail the anticipated favourable social and vocational consequences. Psychological factors are incriminated as obstancles impeding the patients’ maximal medical, mental and social restoration.
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Dorossiev, D., Paskova, V., Zachariev, Z. (1976). Psychological Problems of Cardiac Rehabilitation. In: Stocksmeier, U. (eds) Psychological Approach to the Rehabilitation of Coronary Patients. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81031-2_5
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