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Panic Attacks in Transplant Recipients

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This chapter reviews the challenges of evaluating panic attacks that develop after transplantation. We center our discussion around a case of a heart transplant patient which illustrates the difficulty in delineating the symptoms of panic attacks against the symptoms of cardiopulmonary disease. We will also review the impact of panic attacks on patients’ participation in medical care as they recover from major surgery and a life-changing event. We will also discuss the differences in approaches to the treatment of panic attacks in post-transplant patients compared to the general population.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Tsung Wai Aw

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Paula C. Zimbrean

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Yelizaveta Sher

  3. Department of Behavioral Health, Inova Fairfax Hospital, George Washington University, Falls Church, VA, USA

    Catherine Crone

  4. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Andrea F. DiMartini

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Aw, T.W. (2022). Panic Attacks in Transplant Recipients. In: Zimbrean, P.C., Sher, Y., Crone, C., DiMartini, A.F. (eds) Transplant Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15052-4_6

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