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Bone marrow transplantation in a patient who experienced torture in a prisoner of war camp: Narcissism and survival

Post-traumatic stress disorder has been described as a syndrome from which an individual may suffer as a fesult of extraordinary trauma. Torture of prisoners of war in Serbian camps during the war in Croatia is just such a stressful situation that requires mobilization of all defense mechanisms of an individual. The authors present a case study of a former prisoner of war who acquired acute myelogenous leukemia several months after release and was treated with bone marrow transplantation. On release the patient was medically examined, like all prisoners of war, and the findings did not suggest any disease. Because of the situation, the patient war in psychotherapeutic observation and treatment after his ilness was diagnosed and throughout the transplantation treatment.

Traumatic stress disorder; Vietnam veterans; Disability

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