[Clinical and psychological aspects of sexuality in cardiac patients].

It's a general opinion that the sexual activity represent a stressing experience, both under the physical and emotional aspect; that's why many patients, after suffering from infarction concentrate their preoccupations on the risk related to their renewal of sexual intercourse. The aim of our research is to evaluate the risk factors through a literature review, but also to consider the personal attitudes of the practitioner and of the patient's family, which could cast on the patient their own anxieties, fears and cultural conventions, resulting in a delay of his psychosexual recovery. After a clinical approach to the problem of the sexual recovery of cardiopaths, two short clinical records are given, confirming the importance of both a physical and psychological counselling in order to obtain a satisfactory recovery of the cardiopathic patient.