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.
Baranov
Dmitri
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Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Bickler
Philip E
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Crosby
Gregory J
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Culley
Deborah J
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Eckenhoff
Maryellen F
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Eckenhoff
Roderic G
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Hogan
Kirk J
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Jevtovic-Todorovic
Vesna
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Palotás
András
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Perouansky
Misha
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Planel
Emmanuel
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Silverstein
Jeffrey H
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Wei
Huafeng
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Whittington
Robert A
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Xie
Zhongcong
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Zuo
Zhiyi
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D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors