It takes two hearts to cope with an artificial one: the necessity of applying a dyadic approach in the context of left ventricular assist device transplantation-Opinion paper

Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 27:14:1215917. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1215917. eCollection 2023.

Maya Golan^{1

2}, Noa Vilchinsky¹

¹ The Psycho-Cardiology Research Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
² Afeka Academic College of Engineering, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

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Keywords: Psycho-Cardiology; chronic illness management; dyadic coping; dyadic interview; left ventricular assist device (LVAD).

Grants and funding

This study was supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF-494/21).