Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Patients on Ventricular Assist Device Support: Something to Worry About?
Christiane Kugler, Sadhbh Byrne, Hannah Spielmann, Fabian Richter, Sandra Semmig‐Könze, Christine Spitz‐Koeberich, Wolfgang Albert, Katharina Tigges‐Limmer, the Selma Study Group · 2026
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Kugler and a team of colleagues surveyed patients with ventricular assist devices in twenty twenty-six about traumatic stress. These pumps support a failing heart, and living with one can be hard psychologically. The team asked how common traumatic experiences and stress symptoms are in this group.
The multicenter study gathered two hundred sixty-five patients, mostly men, with an average age of fifty-nine. About forty-three percent reported some traumatizing life event, split evenly between heart-related and other events. Heart surgery was the most cited event. Yet measured stress symptom rates were low, under four percent. Patients reporting trauma showed no worse anxiety, depression, or quality of life. Women faced higher depression risk. The authors still urge routine screening after implantation.
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| CREATOR | Christiane Kugler, Sadhbh Byrne, Hannah Spielmann, Fabian Richter, Sandra Semmig‐Könze, Christine Spitz‐Koeberich, Wolfgang Albert, Katharina Tigges‐Limmer, the Selma Study Group |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |