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Neuropsychological dysfunction in patients with end-stage pulmonary disease: lung transplant evaluation
Neuropsychological dysfunction in patients with end-stage pulmonary disease: lung transplant evaluation
- Source :
- Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 18:353-362
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2003.
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Abstract
- There has been a relative absence of studies that have examined the neuropsychological profiles of potential lung transplant candidates. Neuropsychological data are presented for 134 patients with end-stage pulmonary disease who were being evaluated as potential candidates for lung transplantation. Neuropsychological test results indicated that a significantly greater proportion of the patients exhibited impaired performances on a number of Selective Reminding Test (SRT) tasks as compared to the expected population frequency distributions for these measures. The highest frequencies of impairment were observed on the SRT’s Immediate Free Recall (46.43%), Long-term Retrieval (41.67%), and Consistent Long-term Retrieval (51.19%) variables. On the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)/Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A), patients’ mean clinical profile revealed elevations on Scales 1 (Hypochondriasis) and 3 (Conversion Hysteria). This profile indicated that they were experiencing an array of symptomatology ranging from somatic complaints to lethargy and fatigue, and that they may have been functioning at a reduced level of efficiency. Findings are discussed in light of patients’ end-stage pulmonary disease and factors possibly contributing to their neuropsychological test performances. Implications for clinical practice and future research are also provided.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study
medicine.diagnostic_test
medicine.medical_treatment
Cognitive disorder
Population
General Medicine
Neuropsychological test
medicine.disease
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Lethargy
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Internal medicine
medicine
Lung transplantation
Psychology
education
Psychiatry
Neurocognitive
Conversion disorder
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18735843 and 08876177
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........796094faa7668b3cba3f7a791466744d
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/18.4.353