The Journal of nervous and mental disease
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Forty-six of 51 coronary bypass patients whose inhospital postoperative adjustment was reported earlier, were studied about 18 months postoperatively. In addition, 32 of 46 cardiac valvular surgery patients were seen as a comparison group. ⋯ There were no indications that patients who developed psychiatric symptoms in the immediate postoperative period than patients asymptomatic postoperatively. There was a significant relationship between preoperative psychiatric illness and symptoms in the follow-up period.