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Role of Carotid Artery Ultrasound Duplex Prior to Cardiac Surgery in Adults in Predicting Neurocognitive Complications

Background Neurocognitive complications (NCCs) after cardiac surgery are one of the most devastating complications. Significant internal carotid artery stenosis is assumed to be a predictor of NCCs. Carotid duplex ultrasound (DUS) is a non-invasive imaging study that remains the modality of choice a...

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Autores principales: Mufti, Hani N, Alshaltoni, Reham S, AlGahtani, Adel, Jambi, Farah, Milyani, Ahmed, Zerpa Acosta, Luis, Albugami, Saad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133804
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11211