Cerebral infarction after cardiac surgery

Cerebral infarction, a common central nervous system complication after adult cardiac surgery, is one of the main factors leading to poor prognosis surgery patients besides insufficiency. However, there currently no effective treatment for cerebral infarction. Therefore, early prevention and diagnosis postoperative infarction are particularly important. There many mechanisms during that play an important role in occurrence such as intraoperative embolism, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, atrial fibrillation, temperature regulation, blood pressure control, use products, so forth. The mechanism by which most risk act on human body, not well understood, further research needed. this paper aims summarize explain relevant factors, mechanisms, clinical signs, imaging characteristics, methods complications provides useful data establishment related standards.