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Keep this study
Lead
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
With
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of two strategies of intra-operative hemodynamic management in preventing peri-operative cardiac, cognitive and neurologic morbidity and mortality and postoperative deterioration in the patient's quality of life.
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Patients had to be undergoing elective CABG, without concomitant valve or other cardiac surgery.
2. Patients also had to be able to perform the neuropsychologic tests, and to provide informed consent.
You may not be if
1. Patients who refused to participate in the study.
2. Patients who live too far away from NYC to be able to come back for follow up at six months post-operatively.
3. Patients who had either valvular replacement and aortic amd mitral an aneurysm repair, or other cardiothoracic surgery.
4. Patients who were unable to complete the neuropsychologic test.
