A case report of liaison psychiatry and open heart surgery in a patient with schizophrenia

: The surgical treatment for psychotics remains unsatisfactory because of the potential risk of the sudden death after operation. The perioperative care with an advice from the psychiatrist has been called the liaison psychiatry and considered important to prevent the postoperative psychiatric complication. A 47-year-old male patient who was diagnosed as the schizophrenia underwent aortic valve replacement with an aortic annular enlargement. The cardiac procedure in this patient was accomplished safely without postoperative complications related to the schizophrenia. When the liaison psychiatry is done adequately in the psychiatric patient who needs surgery, an operative procedure can be performed more safely with the minimum risk of the psychiatric complication.