Is cerebral blood flow autoregulation preserved after continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation?
These data suggest that CBF autoregulation is preserved during and immediately after surgery in patients undergoing LVAD insertion.
Depressive complaints predict somatic health care utilization, but somatic morbidity attenuates this relation. Future research on this subject should include interaction effects of depressive complaints and somatic morbidity. Interventions aiming to reduce excess use related to mental distress should be primarily targeted on subjects with mental distress who have no comorbid somatic morbidity.