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Cognitive performance after coronary artery bypass grafting: a follow-up study
Wolfgang Müllges1, Jörg Babin-Ebell, Wilko Reents
1Department of Neurology, Julius Maximilians-University, Würzburg, Germany. wolfgang.muellges@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Neurology
|September 11, 2002
Abstract:
The authors studied 52 of an initial cohort of 91 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting and survived the perioperative period without stroke or other comorbidities, after a median follow-up of 55 months. Baseline data of the followed patients were comparable to those lost for follow-up. No patient showed a decline in neuropsychological test performance as compared to baseline. Vascular risk factor control was good in all patients, possibly contributing to the favorable outcome.