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Genetic variation and cognitive dysfunction one year after cardiac surgery.
Anaesthesia - 1 Jun 2013
Stewart A, Katznelson R, Kraeva N, Carroll J, Pickworth T, Rao V, Djaiani G
Abstract excerpt
Various studies have implicated a potential association between candidate gene polymorphisms and postoperative cognitive dysfunction, yet corroborative studies are lacking. We investigated the variants in genes encoding platelet glycoprotein-IIIa and apolipoprotein-E and their relationship with postoperative cognitive dysfunction one year after cardiac surgery. A total of 155 patients were studied;...
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