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 | | If CABG surgery becomes more firmly established as a causal factor in cognitive impairment, it would mean that this highly useful technique is frequently iatrogenic, contributing to lasting cognitive impairment in approximately 200,000 patients each year. |
 | | CABG surgery is not gentle: major arteries are clamped and moved, solutions infused, blood flow diverted. |
 | | The number of CABG surgeries in the US (400-500,000 annually) is not as great as the number of ischemic strokes (500-700,000), but we would wager that it may well exceed the number of stroke patients who arrive at the ER within the six hour window that has been postulated for so many stroke drug candidates. |
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