Acute aortic dissection is the most common life-threatening disorder classically presenting with tearing chest pain radiating to the back yet can have deceiving clinical presentations. The patient was a 22-year-old pregnant woman (gravida 6, para 4, abortion1) at 26 weeks of gestation. She was a known case of Marfan syndrome who developed acute type A aortic dissection during pregnancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Postoperative delirium is a common neuropsychiatric syndrome after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). We aimed to assess and compare clinical outcomes of CABG patients with delirium with a specific focus on the blood biochemical parameters.
Methods: This investigation was carried out on the 90 eligible patients undergoing CABG.
Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann
November 2020
Background: Postoperative delirium is common in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, characterized by cognitive decline. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of early planned mobilization on delirium after coronary artery bypass grafting.
Methods: This double-blind randomized clinical trial enrolled 92 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting from September to December 2018.