Consensus statement: First International Workshop on Anesthetics and Alzheimer's disease.
In order to review the current status of the potential relationship between anesthesia and Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists recently met in Philadelphia for a full day of presentations and discussions. This special article represents a consensus view on the possible link between Alzheimer's disease and anesthesia and the steps required to test this more definitively.
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
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Bickler
Gregory J
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Crosby
Deborah J
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Culley
Maryellen F
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Roderic G
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Eckenhoff
Kirk J
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Hogan
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Misha
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Perouansky
Emmanuel
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Planel
Jeffrey H
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Silverstein
Huafeng
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Robert A
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