Delirium after cardiac surgery: Have we overlooked obstructive sleep apnea?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-20

  Mirrakhimov, Aibek E ^a   Yen, Timothy ^b   Kwatra, Madan M ^c  

^a SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE DELIRIUM; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

DELIRIUM; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84878529301     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.03.033     Document Type: Article

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