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Psychiatric Aspects of Mitral Valvotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Stafford J. Knox*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland

Extract

The psychiatric aspects of mitral valvotomy have received relatively little detailed study, and this is all the more surprising since clinicians have commented on the frequency with which mental disturbance appears to follow the operation. This investigation was undertaken in an attempt to establish more precisely than heretofore the extent and nature of the relationship.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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