Mental disorders in pulmonary hypertension

The aim of work: to present the analysis of modern scientific publications on the issue of mental disorders and constitutional-personality characteristics of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Material and methods: according to the key words «pulmonary hypertension», «pulmonary arterial hypertension» publications over the past two decades were selected and analyzed in the scientific bases PubMed, MEDLINE and others resource. Results: to date, it is known that pulmonary hypertension is a severe pathological condition which is characterized by a progressive increase of pulmonary vascular resistance and leading to life-threatening complications. Pulmonary hypertension is a multidisciplinary problem. The steady increase in the severity of the main symptoms results in decreased physical activity, quality of life and socio-psychological disorders manifestation. This review carries out the literature data about prevalence and spectrum of mental disorders in dif ferent groups of pulmonar y hyper tension patients. In addition, there were analyzed researches aimed to study constitutional-personality characteristics, coping styles and forming certain types of internal picture of disease. Conclusion: the general prevalence of anxious and depressive disorders are presented in the literature in the most developed form, however, the issues of the psychopathological structure of disorders, the constitutional-personality predisposition, the formation of the internal picture of the disease in pulmonary hypertension are not covered adequately.