Original Articles: PDF OnlyPsychologic predictors of psychosocial and medical outcomes in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty.Shaw, R E; Cohen, F; Fishman-Rosen, J; Murphy, M C; Stertzer, S H; Clark, D A; Myler, R KPsychosomatic Medicine: November 1986 - Volume 48 - Issue 8 - p 582-597 Buy Abstract The relationship between psychologic variables (the match between repressive style and level of cardiac information, and anxiety level) and medical complications, re-stenosis (renarrowing), and psychosocial adjustment was studied in 97 patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for treatment of narrowed coronary arteries. Three major findings emerged for outcomes measured 6 months after PTCA: repressors with a high level of cardiac information (coping style-information level mismatch) and no history of heart attack were at higher risk for late medical complications (p less than 0.001); sensitizers with a low level of cardiac information (coping style-information level mismatch) and whose PTCA was only moderately successful were at higher risk for re-stenosis of the artery previously widened during PTCA (p less than 0.01); and patients who were more anxious during hospitalization had poorer social functioning and more mood disturbance 6 months after PTCA (p less than 0.05). Thus, psychologic, information, and medical factors are important in predicting 6-month outcomes in patients undergoing PTCA. Copyright © 1986 by American Psychosomatic Society