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Geriatric Cardiology and "Pump Head" Revisited: Podcast with Liz Whitlock and Mike Rich
A September 2000 New York Times article titled, "Sometimes Saving the Heart Can Mean Losing the Memory" describes a relatively newly described phenomena of difficulty with memory and other cognitive tasks six months after cardiac bypass graft surgery, or CABG. The syndrome was termed "pump head." A doctor is quoted in the article as stating that older patients he might have previously considered CABG for he would try to manage medically, with a stent. Data on the impact of CABG on cognitive function over the subsequent 20 years has been mixed. The problem with these prior studies is they…
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