Cognitive Dysfunction after Surgery: An Emergent Problem
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[Cognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery].
In spite of the progress in medicine post operative cognitive deficiency (POCD) remains an important clinical problem. Since the introduction of cardiac surgery there have been frequent reports of its adverse neurological outcomes. Recent technological advances have contributed to a lesser occurrence of clinically evident complications such as coma, stroke, epilepsy or blindness. This brought t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Parkinsonism
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2161-0460
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460.1000304