Changes in cognition following cardiac surgery
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Changes in cognition following cardiac surgery.
As the mortality rates following cardiac surgery have declined, increasing interest has been focused on morbidity. One area of morbidity that has received growing attention is the impact of cardiac surgery on the brain. The incidence of stroke has now declined and tends to occur in about 1–3% of cases. 1 Neuropsychological assessment of patients' cognitive changes following cardiac surgery have...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.82.5.541