General Anesthesia Raises Dementia Risk Among Elderly Patients02 Jun 2013-nbsp;-nbsp;-nbsp;
Elderly patients who are exposed to general anesthesia have a 35% higher risk of developing dementia, researchers from INSERM and University of Bordeaux, France, reported at Euroanaesthesia, the annual congress of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA).
Dr Francois Sztark and team explained that POCD (post-operative cognitive dysfunction), a common complication of major surgery, could be linked to dementia several years after the procedure.
Dr. Sztark said that experts believe there may be an association between POCD and subsequent dementia due to a common pathological mechanism through the amyloid
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