Does open heart surgery affect cognitive abilities?

(American Geriatrics Society) Understanding how heart valve surgery may affect your cognition is important for older adults. To learn more, researchers reviewed studies to see how patients' cognition changed before and after heart valve surgery. They also looked at whether surgeries on two types of heart valves, the mitral or the aortic, were associated with better or worse outcomes. Their study was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news