Successful treatment for serious depression with suicidal risk in a heart transplant patient.
Revista Colombiana de psiquiatria 2024 María Del Mar Arango-Posada, Ana Isabel Prada-Escobar, Carolina Marín-Hernández et al.
Major depressive disorder is related to unfavourable outcomes in patients with severe comorbidities. In transplant patients, major depression is associated with worse clinical outcomes. We present the case of a 55-year-old man with a heart transplant due to heart failure of ischaemic origin. Six months after the transplant he developed depressed mood, anhedonia and suicidal ideation with a...