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Stroke in cardiac surgical patients: determinants and outcome

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1 Stroke in cardiac surgical patients: determinants and outcome
G.Hossein Almassi, MD, Tracy Sommers, RN, Thomas E Moritz, MS, A.Laurie W Shroyer, PhD, Martin J London, MD, William G Henderson, PhD, Gulshan K Sethi, MD, Frederick L Grover, MD, Karl E Hammermeister, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 68, Issue 2, Pages (August 1999) DOI: /S (99)

2 Fig 1 Age distribution of patients. The majority are older (72%) than 60 years. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )

3 Fig 2 Postoperative stroke rate according to the surgical procedure. AVR = aortic valve replacement; CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; MVR = mitral valve replacement. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )

4 Fig 3 Relation between increasing age and postoperative stroke rate.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )

5 Fig 4 Relation between the level of systolic blood pressure and stroke. Note that this is not a linear relationship. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )


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