Does heart surgery change a person's personality?

Answer 1

yes it does it is proven too. anything does everyday life . I think we have to take some extra care for our body specially heart

Answer 2

Within the field of organ transplantation, it is not considered "normal" or even "commonplace" for a transplanted organ to change the recipient's personality, as a direct result of having a transplanted organ. (Although that does not mean that a patient's personality will not change due to having to go through something traumatic, such as organ transplantation).

There are a limited amount of cases of organ recipients claiming to have had their personality changed, experiencing changes in dietary habit and/or have gained memories from the recipient. However 99%of these cases relate to heart-transplant patients. Furthermore, "personality changes" and changes to dietary preferences can fairly easily be explained due to necessary medication post-transplant. Cortecosteroids in particular can make a person prone to eating sweeter, fattier and spicier foods, and can also make a person more irritable and impulsive.

The case of "gained memories" though I cannot explain, although I've yet to find an reliable account of the case; I believe it was to do with a girl who received a heart-transplant from a murder victim who went on to have dreams which then helped to catch the murderer. However it may just be an urban myth; murder victims don't usually make good organ donors.

Answer 3

Generally, the person's personality changes because of the major surgery that they've been through, rather than the actual change in their heart if they have a heart transplant. Most people get the feeling that "If I can do that, I can do anything" so then go off and do some odd stuff.

Also, the drugs required to immunosuppress a transplant can cause personality changes. For example, corticosteroids which are commonly used post-transplant typically cause appetite increase, mood swings and hyperness when used in high dosages. (Although in some cases they make people really depressed).

However, usually "basic heart surgery" (if there is such as thing) without a transplant does not cause huge personality changes, since thesedays it is common, socially accepted and routine surgery.

Answer 4

yes it does it is proven too. anything does everyday life . I think we have to take some extra care for our body specially heart