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. 2023 Aug 23:12:e3045.
doi: 10.31661/gmj.v12i.3045. eCollection 2023.

Postoperative Delirium and Dementia in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Venus Shahabi Raberi  1 , Morteza Solati Kooshk Qazi  2 , Ali Zolfi Gol  3 , Rahil GhorbaniNia  4 , Ozra Kahourian  1 , Reza Faramarz Zadeh  1
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Postoperative Delirium and Dementia in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Venus Shahabi Raberi et al. Galen Med J. .

Abstract

Delirium and dementia are considered to be the most significant postoperative neurocognitive complications in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, particularly those aged 60 years and older, which reduces the post-surgery quality of life, prolongs hospitalization, increases costs, and elevated the rates of mortality. Nevertheless, the etiology, risk factors, and predictive biomarkers, have not been well elucidated particularly, in patients with unmanifested underline cognitive impairments. The present study aimed to review the findings on the etiology, factors increasing the risk of incidence, and predictive biomarkers of postoperative delirium and dementia after cardiac surgery, and to describe the suggested pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.

Keywords: Cardiac Surgery; Dementia; Postoperative Complications.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interests.

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