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Psychiatric Aspects of Mitral Valvotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

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

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 109 , Issue 462 , September 1963 , pp. 656 - 668
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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