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Cardiac valvular surgery patients have often been found to have poorer cognitive functioning than coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients. Since studies of cardiac valvular surgery were usually reported in the 1970s and CABG studies in the 1980s, the finding, as Sotaniemi [1] suggested, could be attributed to:
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more severe pathology in the valvular surgery patients; or
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the studies having been done in two different decades. Surgical techniques had improved considerably by the 1980s and, with lower surgical stress, the CABG patients might appear to function better.
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Willner, A.E. (1992). Cognitive function before and after cardiac surgery: a comparison of cardiac valvular replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery. In: Walter, P.J. (eds) Quality of Life after Open Heart Surgery. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 132. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2640-3_5
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