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| | Depression Increases Risk For Some Heart Transplant Patients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | BETHESDA, MD -- September 25, 2002 -- Depressed patients who undergo heart transplantation because of a certain type of heart disease are about five times as likely to die in the first few years after surgery as similar patients who are not depressed, according to a new study. |
 | | The association between depression and death was only seen among patients with heart failure due to coronary heart disease, or ischemic cardiomyopathy, and not in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarging of the heart caused by genetic, viral, immune or sometimes unknown factors. |
 | | The level of depression, as measured before surgery, was a significant predictor of post-operative survival in ischemic disease. |
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