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Patients undergoing cardiac surgery, including isolated coronary artery bypass grafting, intracardiac…
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May aid preoperative risk stratification in cardiac surgery; leaves open targeted prevention trials in high-risk subgroups.
Advanced age, proximal aortic atherosclerosis, hypertension, previous stroke or TIA, diabetes, and female gender are key preoperative risk factors for adverse neurologic outcomes after cardiac surgery.
Nancy A. Nussmeier (2002) studied this question.
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