Effect of Depressive Symptoms on Survival After Heart Transplantation
Stephan Zipfel, MD,
Antonius Schneider, MD,
Beate Wild, DiplPsych, DiplMath,
Bernd Löwe, MD, DiplPsych,
Jana Jünger, MD,
Markus Haass, MD,
Falk-Udo Sack, MD,
Günther Bergmann, MD and
Wolfgang Herzog, MD
From the Department of Internal Medicine II (General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine) (S.Z., A.S., B.W., B.L., J.J., G.B., W.H.), the Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology, Angiology, Pulmonology) (M.H.), and the Department of Heart Surgery (F.-U.S.), University of Heidelberg, Medical Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

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Fig. 1. Comparison of posttransplant survival between subgroups of ICMP patients with high (N = 19) and low (N = 21) preoperative depression scores (log rank: 2 = 5.18, p = .023).
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