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Article: COGNITIVE PROBLEMS COMMON AFTER BYPASS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2004
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Byline: Newsday
A number of studies in recent years have found that up to half of patients who undergo the surgery that former President Clinton had Monday have problems with attention, memory and the ability to carry out several tasks at the same time.
These post-bypass cognitive problems have become a focus of surgeons' attention: Some say the risk for memory and attention deficits increase in patients who are put on heart-lung machines during the surgery -- that stopping the heart plays a role in subsequent cognitive problems.
More than 80 percent of bypass surgeries, including Clinton's, use a heart-lung machine.
The machine does ...