TY - JOUR AU - Veerakul, Gumpanart AU - Visudharom, Kittipan PY - 2011/09/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Cerebral complications in conventional coronary bypass graft surgery JF - The Bangkok Medical Journal JA - BKK Med J VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Reviews Article DO - 10.31524/bkkmedj.2011.09.011 UR - https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/bkkmedj/article/view/217759 SP - 58 AB - <p>Four decades ago, after on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) was introduced for treating symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD), operative mortality had continuously declined to below 5%.<sup>1-3</sup>&nbsp;While the mortality had fallen, the operative morbidity had been rising as CABG gradually enrolled more complicated elderly cases with advanced CAD and co-morbidities.<sup>1-4</sup>&nbsp;Among surgical morbidity, cerebral complications were the most devastating events, since they increased the length of stay, medical expense as well as hospital mortality.<sup>5-19</sup>&nbsp;Although the available data showed the declining incidence of peri-operative CNS injury, the incidence of overt cases still varied from 2-7%.<sup>20, 21</sup></p> ER -