Associate Professor @Duke_Anesthesia, researching #delirium, #neuroinflammation and perioperative neurocognitive disorders 🏄♂️🏊♂️
Feb 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Kudos @RealMilesBerger and team for this study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
I made a brief🧵from my perspective as people keep asking me about these findings (and I love discussing about this topic):
26% of older adults had changes in at least 1 cognitive domain 6 weeks after surgery, not a negligible number. This was unrelated to CSF changes in AD biomarkers and remains unknown what drives this dysfunction in these subjects...