title: Neurologic complications of cardiac surgery.
abstract: The average age of patients undergoing cardiac surgery and the number of comorbidities they possess will continue to increase as surgical technology advances. Toxic/metabolic encephalopathy, hemispheric strokes, hypoxic injury, and peripheral nerve lesions all can occur as a result of cardiac surgery. Therefore, an understanding of the neurologic risk, recognizable syndromes, and preventative measures will continue to be important. Careful preoperative assessment, operative risk factor reduction, and careful postoperative assessments and management may reduce the neurologic risk for cardiac surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Llinas
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barbut
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Caplan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020208:Brain Injury, Chronic / Q000209:etiology; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000209:etiology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology