TY - JOUR
T1 - Does mild cognitive impairment increase the risk of developing postoperative cognitive dysfunction?
AU - Bekker, Alex
AU - Lee, Cynthia
AU - de Santi, Susan
AU - Pirraglia, Elizabeth
AU - Zaslavsky, Alexander
AU - Farber, Sonya
AU - Haile, Michael
AU - de Leon, Mony J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported by the grants from The New York University Medical Center Alzheimer's Disease Core Center , Grant No. AG08051-19 ; Foundation for Perioperative Research and Education ( fpre.org ); and NY State Clinical Research Investigator Program Fellowship (ECRIP) . Clinical surgery-American
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - Background: Increasingly, postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is recognized as a complication after surgery in the elderly. We sought to determine whether patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) would have an accelerated progression of dementia postoperatively when compared with the patients without MCI. Methods: The Center for Brain Health at the New York University (NYU) Medical Center maintains records of volunteers who undergo a series of neurological assessments. We reviewed records of 670 patients who received at least 2 evaluations and whose surgery occurred before the second assessment. Longitudinal differences of several cognitive domains were examined. Results: Individuals with MCI and surgery had a greater decline in performance on the Digit Span Forward test compared with those with MCI without surgery on their postoperative evaluation (F3,158 = 3.12, P = .03). No performance changes were detected in the normal subjects. Conclusion: These preliminary findings suggest that surgery negatively impacts attention/concentration in patients with MCI but not in normal individuals. This is the first study that identified a specific subgroup of patients who are predisposed to POCD.
AB - Background: Increasingly, postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is recognized as a complication after surgery in the elderly. We sought to determine whether patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) would have an accelerated progression of dementia postoperatively when compared with the patients without MCI. Methods: The Center for Brain Health at the New York University (NYU) Medical Center maintains records of volunteers who undergo a series of neurological assessments. We reviewed records of 670 patients who received at least 2 evaluations and whose surgery occurred before the second assessment. Longitudinal differences of several cognitive domains were examined. Results: Individuals with MCI and surgery had a greater decline in performance on the Digit Span Forward test compared with those with MCI without surgery on their postoperative evaluation (F3,158 = 3.12, P = .03). No performance changes were detected in the normal subjects. Conclusion: These preliminary findings suggest that surgery negatively impacts attention/concentration in patients with MCI but not in normal individuals. This is the first study that identified a specific subgroup of patients who are predisposed to POCD.
KW - Cognitive impairment
KW - Neurocognitive testing
KW - Postoperative complications
KW - Working memory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.042
DO - 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.042
M3 - Article
C2 - 20609722
AN - SCOPUS:77953663550
SN - 0002-9610
VL - 199
SP - 782
EP - 788
JO - American journal of surgery
JF - American journal of surgery
IS - 6
ER -