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Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction in the Elderly
Anesthesiology Clinics, 2009Despite improvement in surgical techniques, anesthetic management, and intensive care, a significant number of elderly patients develop postoperative cognitive decline. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a postoperative memory or thinking impairment that has been corroborated by neuropsychological testing, for which increasing age is the ...
Arthur M. Lam, Ramesh Ramaiah
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Cognitive Dysfunction in Myasthenia Gravis
International Journal of Neuroscience, 1990The performance of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) on selective neuropsychological tests was examined to assess the diagnostic applicability of such examinations. Twenty-seven patients with MG and twenty-seven age, sex, and education-matched controls were given a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive functions.
Kiyoshi Takamiya +4 more
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Animal models of cognitive dysfunction
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 2006The increased life expectancy in industrialised countries in the last half century has also brought to a greater incidence of neurological disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases and developing in a rather long time. In this respect, Alzheimer's disease (AD), for the large incidence, and the dramatic loss of autonomy caused by its cognitive and
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Postoperative cognitive dysfunction
Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, 2012Summary Postoperative cognitive dysfunction is probably the most frequent type of postoperative cognitive impairment. It mostly resolves within days to weeks, but may become a permanent disorder with significant impact on patients' quality of life. The pathophysiology of POCD remains incompletely understood. Among the patient-related risk factors for
C. Kern +4 more
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Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction
2018Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is an underdiagnosed serious complication occurring after a surgical procedure. It carries risks for short-term and long-term complications and may predispose an individual to a multitude of morbidities, increased healthcare-related cost, as well as death.
Wael Saasouh, Shobana Rajan
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Ambulatory anaesthesia and cognitive dysfunction
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2015More surgical procedures are performed on an ambulatory basis and the advantages are apparent, but outpatient surgery presents challenges because of the expectation of a fast recovery soon after termination of anaesthesia. Ambulatory surgery is a well tolerated regimen with few serious adverse outcomes, hence difficult to obtain sound scientific ...
Rasmussen, Lars S, Steinmetz, Jacob
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Cognitive Dysfunctions in Multiple Sclerosis
2012Cognitive functions are frequently interested by the MS pathological processes, with reported percentages of impaired patients ranging from 45 to 70. These dysfunctions cause important limitations in familiar and social relations as well in occupational activities.
NOCENTINI, UGO +2 more
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Symptoms: Fatigue and Cognitive Dysfunction
2015Fatigue and cognitive complaints commonly occur during adjuvant chemotherapy treatment of breast cancer. Fatigue is also associated with radiation therapy, and can occur with surgery alone. Both of these symptoms may persist beyond the initial treatment of breast cancer and they have taken on greater prominence with the growing number of breast cancer ...
Patricia A. Ganz, Julienne E. Bower
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Cognitive Dysfunction in Adults
2021Moyamoya disease is an occlusive cerebrovascular disease characterized by stenosis or occlusion at the distal ends of bilateral internal arteries. The unusual vascular network (moyamoya vessels) around the circle of Willis with this disease is considered to represent collateral channels formed as a result of progressive brain ischemia.
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Cognitive Dysfunction and Dementia
2001Abstract The disorders covered in Part II of this book collectively demonstrate that damage to the white matter of the brain can disrupt higher functions. The review of these individual disorders forms a basis for considering the many neurobehavioral syndromes they may produce.
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