NIH R01 · 2024
Preoperative Occult Neurodegeneration and Postoperative Delirium
Program Director/Principal Investigator (Last, First, Middle): Crosby, Gregory J. ABSTRACT Delirium is the most common complication of surgery and anesthesia in older patients, afflicting 15-60% of those having non-cardiac procedures. This is a major clinical problem because nearly 40% of surgical procedures are performed on older patients and delirium is associated with serious morbidity, including accelerated decline to dementia. Still, the cause of postoperative delirium is uncertain and its neuropathogenesis is unknown. Cerebral neurodegenerative pathology characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders is common even in cognitively normal older people, and by the time even…
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