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Zang E, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Wu B, Fried TR, Becher RD, Gill TM. Association Between Cognitive Trajectories and Subsequent Health Status, Depressive Symptoms, and Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States: Findings From a Nationally Representative Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2024; 79:glae143. [PMID: 38845419 PMCID: PMC11212484 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glae143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Cognitive decline may be an early indicator of major health issues in older adults, though research using population-based data is lacking. Researchers objective was to assess the relationships between distinct cognitive trajectories and subsequent health outcomes, including health status, depressive symptoms, and mortality, using a nationally representative cohort. METHODS Data were drawn from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Global cognition was assessed annually between 2011 and 2018. The health status of 4 413 people, depressive symptoms in 4 342 individuals, and deaths among 5 955 living respondents were measured in 2019. Distinct cognitive trajectory groups were identified using an innovative Bayesian group-based trajectory model. Ordinal logistic, Poisson, and logistic regression models were used to examine the associations between cognitive trajectories and subsequent health outcomes. RESULTS Researchers identified five cognitive trajectory groups with distinct baseline values and subsequent changes in cognitive function. Compared with the group with stably high cognitive function, worse cognitive trajectories (ie, lower baseline values and sharper declines) were associated with higher risks of poor health status, depressive symptoms, and mortality, even after adjusting for relevant covariates. CONCLUSIONS Among older adults, worse cognitive trajectories are strongly associated with subsequent poor health status, high depressive symptoms, and high mortality risks. Regular screening of cognitive function may help to facilitate early identification and interventions for older adults susceptible to adverse health outcomes.
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- Emma Zang
- Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Division of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Tang AB, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Ward D, Glymour MM, Whitlock EL. Long-term cognitive outcome after elective hip or knee total joint arthroplasty: A population-based observational study. J Am Geriatr Soc 2024; 72:1338-1347. [PMID: 38190295 PMCID: PMC11090741 DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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BACKGROUND One year after elective hip or knee total joint arthroplasty (TJA), >30% of older adults meet criteria for postoperative neurocognitive disorder. However, this is not contextualized with long-term cognitive outcomes in comparable surgical and nonsurgical controls. We analyzed population-based data to compare long-term cognitive outcomes in older adults after TJA, other surgeries, and with and without arthritis pain. METHODS This was a retrospective observational analysis of United States older adults in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) who underwent elective TJA, or elective surgery without expected functional benefits (e.g., cholecystectomy; inguinal herniorrhaphy), between 1998 and 2018 at aged 65 or older. TJA recipients were also age- and sex-matched to nonsurgical controls who reported moderate-severe arthritic pain or denied pain, so that comparison groups included surgical and nonsurgical (pain-suffering and pain-free) controls. We modeled biennially-assessed memory performance, a measure of direct and proxy cognitive assessments, before and after surgery, normalized to the rate of memory decline ("cognitive aging") in controls to express effect size estimates as excess, or fewer, months of memory decline. We used linear mixed effects models adjusted for preoperative health and demographic factors, including frailty, flexibly capturing time before/after surgery (knots at -4, 0, 8 years; discontinuity at surgery). RESULTS There were 1947 TJA recipients (average age 74; 63% women; 1358 knee, 589 hip) and 1631 surgical controls (average age 76; 38% women). Memory decline 3 years after TJA was similar to surgical controls (5.2 [95% confidence interval, CI -1.2 to 11.5] months less memory decline in the TJA group, p = 0.11) and nonsurgical controls. At 5 years, TJA recipients experienced 5.0 [95% CI -0.9 to 10.9] months less memory decline than arthritic pain nonsurgical controls. CONCLUSION There is no systematic accelerated memory decline at 3 years after TJA compared with surgical or nonsurgical controls.
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- Angelina B Tang
- School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Payne T, Lennertz RC, Sanders RD. Brain Injury in Postoperative Delirium: Lessons from Neurofilament Light. Anesthesiology 2024; 140:884-886. [PMID: 38592356 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000004921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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Reese M, Wong MK, Cheong V, Ha CI, Cooter Wright M, Browndyke J, Moretti E, Devinney MJ, Habib AS, Moul JW, Shaw LM, Waligorska T, Whitson HE, Cohen HJ, Welsh-Bohmer KA, Plassman BL, Mathew JP, Berger M. Cognitive and Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer's Disease-related Biomarker Trajectories in Older Surgical Patients and Matched Nonsurgical Controls. Anesthesiology 2024; 140:963-978. [PMID: 38324729 PMCID: PMC11003848 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000004924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
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BACKGROUND Anesthesia and/or surgery accelerate Alzheimer's disease pathology and cause memory deficits in animal models, yet there is a lack of prospective data comparing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Alzheimer's disease-related biomarker and cognitive trajectories in older adults who underwent surgery versus those who have not. Thus, the objective here was to better understand whether anesthesia and/or surgery contribute to cognitive decline or an acceleration of Alzheimer's disease-related pathology in older adults. METHODS The authors enrolled 140 patients 60 yr or older undergoing major nonneurologic surgery and 51 nonsurgical controls via strata-based matching on age, sex, and years of education. CSF amyloid β (Aβ) 42, tau, and p-tau-181p levels and cognitive function were measured before and after surgery, and at the same time intervals in controls. RESULTS The groups were well matched on 25 of 31 baseline characteristics. There was no effect of group or interaction of group by time for baseline to 24-hr or 6-week postoperative changes in CSF Aβ, tau, or p-tau levels, or tau/Aβ or p-tau/Aβ ratios (Bonferroni P > 0.05 for all) and no difference between groups in these CSF markers at 1 yr (P > 0.05 for all). Nonsurgical controls did not differ from surgical patients in baseline cognition (mean difference, 0.19 [95% CI, -0.06 to 0.43]; P = 0.132), yet had greater cognitive decline than the surgical patients 1 yr later (β, -0.31 [95% CI, -0.45 to -0.17]; P < 0.001) even when controlling for baseline differences between groups. However, there was no difference between nonsurgical and surgical groups in 1-yr postoperative cognitive change in models that used imputation or inverse probability weighting for cognitive data to account for loss to follow up. CONCLUSIONS During a 1-yr time period, as compared to matched nonsurgical controls, the study found no evidence that older patients who underwent anesthesia and noncardiac, nonneurologic surgery had accelerated CSF Alzheimer's disease-related biomarker (tau, p-tau, and Aβ) changes or greater cognitive decline. EDITOR’S PERSPECTIVE
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- Melody Reese
- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke University-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
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- DUMC, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Department of Surgery, Durham, NC, USA
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- Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- DUMC, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Department of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- DUMC, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Department of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- DUMC, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- DUMC, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Department of Anesthesiology, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Durham, NC, USA
- DUMC, Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Durham, NC, USA
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Joo H, Li LY, Whitlock EL. Long-term cognitive outcomes after surgery and anesthesia: what we find depends on where we look. CURRENT ANESTHESIOLOGY REPORTS 2024; 14:8-14. [PMID: 38784119 PMCID: PMC11115381 DOI: 10.1007/s40140-023-00590-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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Purpose of review To review how anecdote and narrative medicine, primary cohort studies, epidemiological studies, and the dementia literature can be bridged to understand long-term postoperative cognitive decline. Recent findings Primary cohort studies have measured recoverable declines in memory and executive function after major surgery, but less-appreciated sources also offer critical insights. Anecdote reveals that functionally-impactful cognitive decline may persist after physical recovery in some patients despite modern medications and monitoring, and that physicians are unprepared to address patients' cognitive concerns. However, epidemiological studies reproducibly demonstrate that elective surgery has no, or a negligible, average impact on cognition in older patients. Cognitively provocative factors - like medical hospital admissions or health factors like diabetes and smoking - are common in late life, and surgery likely contributes minimally to long-term cognitive change for most patients. Summary Patients should be reassured that, while anecdotes of durable cognitive change after surgery are easily accessible, most patients experience cognitive recovery after major surgery. However, those who do not recover deserve characterization of their symptoms and investigation of modifiable causes to facilitate cognitive recovery.
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- Hyundeok Joo
- Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Taylor J, Wu JG, Kunkel D, Parker M, Rivera C, Casey C, Naismith S, Teixeira-Pinto A, Maze M, Pearce RA, Lennertz R, Sanders RD. Resolution of elevated interleukin-6 after surgery is associated with return of normal cognitive function. Br J Anaesth 2023; 131:694-704. [PMID: 37385855 PMCID: PMC10925892 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Unresolved surgical inflammation might induce chronic cognitive decline in older adults. Although inflammatory biomarkers have been correlated with perioperative cognitive impairment and delirium, the effects of prolonged inflammation on cognition are not well studied. This prospective cohort study investigated 1-yr dynamics in plasma interleukin-6 levels and executive function. METHODS Patients undergoing major surgery (n=170) aged ≥65 yr completed Trail Making Test B and other neuropsychological assessments with plasma interleukin-6 levels collected on postoperative days 1-9 and 90, and at 1-yr. Mixed-effects analyses were conducted for Trail Making Test B (and other assessments), including interleukin-6 levels, time, and additional confounders (fixed effects), and a random effect for participant. RESULTS Changes in interleukin-6 levels were associated with changes in Trail Making Test B over 1 yr in a generalised additive model (β=0.074, P<0.001) supporting that unresolved inflammation impaired executive function. This result was robust to confounders, outlier rejection, and fitting to non-linear models. Changes in interleukin-6 levels also correlated with changes in Trail Making Test A and Controlled Oral Word Association Test. Sensitivity analyses conducted on binary definitions of cognitive decline (>1, >1.5, or >2 standard deviations from baseline) were also associated with interleukin-6 changes. CONCLUSIONS Delayed resolution of inflammation is associated with cognitive impairment after surgery. Monitoring interleukin-6 might provide an opportunity to intervene with anti-inflammatory therapies in vulnerable patients. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT01980511, NCT03124303.
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- Jennifer Taylor
- Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Healthy Brain Ageing Program, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia; NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Lennertz RC, Sanders RD. The U-shaped curve predicting cognitive vulnerability to delirium severity. Brain 2023; 146:1743-1744. [PMID: 37019999 PMCID: PMC11004916 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awad115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023] Open
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This scientific commentary refers to ‘Extremes of baseline cognitive function determine the severity of delirium: a population study’ by Tsui et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awad062).
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- Richard C Lennertz
- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, New South Wales, Australia
- Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, New South Wales, Australia
- NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Payne T, Taylor J, Casey C, Kunkel D, Parker M, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Pearce RA, Lennertz RC, Sanders RD. Prospective analysis of plasma amyloid beta and postoperative delirium in the Interventions for Postoperative Delirium: Biomarker-3 study. Br J Anaesth 2023; 130:546-556. [PMID: 36842841 PMCID: PMC10273086 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2023] [Indexed: 02/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The effect of postoperative delirium on the amyloid cascade of Alzheimer's dementia is poorly understood. Using early postoperative plasma biomarkers, we explored whether surgery and delirium are associated with changes in amyloid pathways. METHODS We analysed data from 100 participants in the Interventions for Postoperative Delirium: Biomarker-3 (IPOD-B3) cohort study in the USA (NCT03124303 and NCT01980511), which recruited participants aged >65 yr undergoing non-intracranial surgery. We assessed the relationship between the change in plasma amyloid beta ratio (AβR; Aβ42:Aβ40) and delirium incidence (defined by the 3-Minute Diagnostic Confusion Assessment Method) and severity (quantified by the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98, the study's primary outcome). We also tested the relationship between plasma amyloid beta and intraoperative variables. RESULTS Across all participants, the plasma AβR increased from the preoperative period to postoperative Day 1 (Wilcoxon P<0.001). However, this increase was not associated with delirium incidence (Wilcoxon P=0.22) or peak severity after adjusting for confounders (log[incidence rate ratio]=0.43; P=0.14). Postoperative Day 1 change in plasma AβR was not associated with postoperative Day 1 change in plasma tau, neurofilament light, or inflammatory markers (interleukin [IL]-1β, IL-1Ra, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and IL-12), or with operative time or low intraoperative arterial pressure. CONCLUSIONS Perioperative changes in plasma amyloid do not appear to be associated with postoperative delirium. Our findings do not support associations of dynamic changes in amyloid with postoperative delirium. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION .NCT03124303 and NCT01980511.
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- Thomas Payne
- Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia; NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Rose KM, Narang G, Rosen G, Labatte C, Dumitrascu CI, Campagna J, Yu A, Manley BJ, Spiess PE, Li R, Adibi M, Murray KS, Sexton WJ, Humphreys MR. Antegrade administration of mitomycin gel for upper tract urothelial carcinoma via percutaneous nephrostomy tube: a multi-institutional retrospective cohort study. BJU Int 2023; 131:471-476. [PMID: 36285629 DOI: 10.1111/bju.15925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To assess the safety profile of antegrade mitomycin gel instillation through a percutaneous nephrostomy tube (PCNT) for upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) with the aim of decreasing morbidity associated with therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients undergoing antegrade administration of mitomycin gel via PCNT were retrospectively included for analysis from four tertiary referral centres between 2020 and 2022. The primary outcome was safety profile, as graded by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (v5.0). Post-therapy disease burden was assessed by primary disease evaluation (PDE) via ureteroscopy. RESULTS Thirty-two patients received at least one dose of mitomycin gel via PCNT for UTUC, 29 of whom completed induction and underwent PDE. Thirteen patients (41%) had residual tumour present prior to induction therapy. At a median of 15.0 months following first dose of induction therapy, ureteric stenosis occurred in three patients (9%), all of whom were treated without later recurrence or chronic stenosis. Other adverse events included fatigue (27%), flank pain (19%), urinary tract infection (12%), sepsis (8%) and haematuria (8%). No patients had impaired renal function during follow-up and there were no treatment-related deaths. Seventeen patients (59%) had no evidence of disease at PDE and have not experienced recurrence at a median follow-up of 13.0 months post induction. CONCLUSIONS Administration of mitomycin gel via a PCNT offers a low rate of ureteric stenosis, demonstrates a favourable safety profile, and is administered without general anaesthesia.
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- Kyle M Rose
- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Urologic Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Urologic Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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Taylor J, Eisenmenger L, Lindroth H, Booth J, Mohanty R, Nair V, Parker M, Kunkel D, Rivera C, Casey C, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Mrkobrada M, Devereaux PJ, Pearce RA, Lennertz R, Prabhakaran V, Sanders RD. Perioperative ischaemic brain injury and plasma neurofilament light: a secondary analysis of two prospective cohort studies. Br J Anaesth 2023; 130:e361-e369. [PMID: 36437124 PMCID: PMC9997085 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2022.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ischaemic brain infarction can occur without acute neurological symptoms (covert strokes) or with symptoms (overt strokes), both associated with poor health outcomes. We conducted a pilot study of the incidence of preoperative and postoperative (intraoperative or postoperative) covert strokes, and explored the relationship of postoperative ischaemic brain injury to blood levels of neurofilament light, a biomarker of neuronal damage. METHODS We analysed 101 preoperative (within 2 weeks of surgery) and 58 postoperative research MRIs on postoperative days 2-9 from two prospective cohorts collected at the University of Wisconsin (NCT01980511 and NCT03124303). Participants were aged >65 yr and undergoing non-intracranial, non-carotid surgery. RESULTS Preoperative covert stroke was identified in 2/101 participants (2%; Bayesian 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.2-5.4). This rate was statistically different from the postoperative ischaemic brain injury rate of 7/58 (12%, 4.9-21.3%; P=0.01) based on postoperative imaging. However, in a smaller group of participants with paired imaging (n=30), we did not identify the same effect (P=0.67). Patients with postoperative brain injury had elevated peak neurofilament light levels (median [inter-quartile range], 2.34 [2.24-2.64] log10 pg ml-1) compared with those without (1.86 [1.48-2.21] log10 pg ml-1; P=0.025). Delirium severity scores were higher in those with postoperative brain injury (19 [17-21]) compared with those without (7 [4-12]; P=0.01). CONCLUSION Although limited by a small sample size, these data suggest that preoperative covert stroke occurs more commonly than previously anticipated. Plasma neurofilament light is a potential screening biomarker for postoperative ischaemic brain injury.
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- Jennifer Taylor
- Specialty of Anaesthetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Division of Nursing Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Care, Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medicine and Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Perioperative and Surgery Research Group, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Specialty of Anaesthetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
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Huuskonen M, Koistinen T, Sihvola N, Parkkari I, Palovaara S, Kytö V, Sipilä J, Jyrkkiö S, Heervä E. Controlled register‐based study of road traffic accidents in 12,651 Finnish cancer patients during 2013–2019. Cancer Med 2022; 12:7406-7413. [PMID: 36397273 PMCID: PMC10067070 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.5444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Little controlled evidence exists on road traffic accident (RTA) risk among patients diagnosed with cancer, while clinicians are often requested to comment their ability to drive. The aim of this study was to evaluate RTA risk in a population-based cohort of cancer patients living in Southwest Finland. PATIENTS All adult patients diagnosed with cancer in 2013-2019 were included. Acute appendectomy/cholecystectomy and actinic keratosis patients without cancer were selected from the same region as the control cohort. Participants were cross-referenced to a national driving licence database, yielding 12,651 cancer and 6334 control patients with a valid licence. Due to marked differences in their clinical presentation, the cancer cohort was divided into nine cancers of interest (breast, prostate, colorectal, lung, melanoma, head & neck, primary brain tumours, gynaecological and haematological malignancies). The nationwide law-regulated motor liability insurance registry was searched for all RTAs leading to injury with claims paid to not- or at-fault participants. At-fault drivers were verified based on sex and birth year. RESULTS During a median follow-up of 34 months, 167 persons were at-fault drivers in RTAs leading to injury. Among the nine cancers of interest, RTA risk did not differ from the control cohort. Among cancer patients, multivariable regression suggested male sex and opioid use, but not advanced cancer stage or given systemic therapy, as the most influential risk factors for RTA. CONCLUSIONS Cancer diagnosis itself was not associated with increased RTA risk, but other associated symptoms, medications, comorbidities or specific cancer subgroups may.
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- Marja‐Liisa Huuskonen
- Department of Traffic Medicine Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Oncology Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Heart Centre Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Department of Neurology Siun Sote, North Karelia Central Hospital Joensuu Finland
- Clinical Neurosciences Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Department of Oncology Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Department of Oncology Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Turku Finland
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Vassilaki M, Kremers WK, Machulda MM, Knopman DS, Petersen RC, Laporta ML, Berry DJ, Lewallen DG, Maradit Kremers H. Long-term Cognitive Trajectory After Total Joint Arthroplasty. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2241807. [PMID: 36374499 PMCID: PMC9664257 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.41807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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IMPORTANCE Individuals with total joint arthroplasty (TJA) have long-term exposure to metal-containing implants; however, whether long-term exposure to artificial implants is associated with cognitive function is unknown. OBJECTIVE To compare long-term cognitive trajectories in individuals with and without TJA. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This population-based cohort study assessed serial cognitive evaluations of 5550 participants (≥50 years of age) from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging between November 1, 2004, and December 31, 2020. EXPOSURES Total joint arthroplasty of the hip or the knee. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Linear mixed-effects models were used to compare the annualized rate of change in global and domain-specific cognitive scores in participants with and without TJA, adjusting for age, sex, educational level, apolipoprotein E ε4 carrier status, and cognitive test practice effects. RESULTS A total of 5550 participants (mean [SD] age at baseline, 73.04 [10.02] years; 2830 [51.0%] male) were evaluated. A total of 952 participants had undergone at least 1 TJA of the hip (THA, n = 430) or the knee (TKA, n = 626) before or after entry into the cohort. Participants with TJA were older, more likely to be female, and had a higher body mass index than participants without TJA. No difference was observed in the rate of cognitive decline in participants with and without TJA until 80 years of age. A slightly faster cognitive decline at 80 years or older and more than 8 years from surgery was observed (b = -0.03; 95% CI, -0.04 to -0.02). In stratified analyses by surgery type, the faster decline was observed primarily among older participants with TKA (b = -0.04; 95% CI, -0.06 to -0.02). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this cohort study, long-term cognitive trajectories in individuals with and without TJA were largely similar except for a slightly faster decline among the oldest patients with TKA; however, the magnitude of difference was small and of unknown clinical significance.
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- Maria Vassilaki
- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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Chinnappa-Quinn L, Lam BCP, Harvey L, Kochan NA, Bennett M, Crawford JD, Makkar SR, Brodaty H, Sachdev PS. Surgical Hospitalization Is Not Associated With Cognitive Trajectory Over 6 Years in Healthy Older Australians. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2022; 23:608-615. [PMID: 35304131 DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2022.01.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the association of cognitive trajectories and overnight surgical hospitalization in older adults, while controlling for and comparing with the association with acute medical hospitalizations. DESIGN This is a secondary analysis of data from a population-based, longitudinal cohort study of older Australians. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Cognition was assessed with 4 biennial waves of prospective neuropsychological data from 1026 Sydney Memory and Aging Study participants age 70 to 90 years at baseline. Hospitalization exposure was obtained from 10 years of electronically linked data from the New South Wales Admitted Patient Data Collection. METHODS Latent growth curve modeling estimated global cognition z score baseline and slope over 6 years, and the effects of contemporaneous surgical and medical hospitalization predictors while controlling for potential demographic and comorbidity confounders. RESULTS After controlling for confounding variables, this analysis showed that overnight surgical hospitalizations were not associated with worse baseline global cognition or accelerated cognitive decline over 6 years. This was despite this cohort having more surgeries and more complex surgeries compared with Australian data for overnight hospitalizations in over 70-year-olds. Conversely, recent medical hospitalizations were associated with accelerated cognitive decline. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS This analysis finds that surgery and anesthesia are unlikely to be risk factors for medium to long-term global cognitive decline in healthy older adults, while controlling for contemporaneous medical hospitalizations. These findings are contrary to prior conclusions from several surgical studies that may have been impeded by insufficient comparison groups. They are, however, consistent with recent population-based studies suggesting surgery has minimal association with cognitive decline in the medium to long-term. Future research needs to clarify the association of surgical hospitalization with the full spectrum of cognitive outcomes including subjective cognitive complaints and dementia, and importantly, how these cognitive outcomes correlate with clinically significant functional changes.
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- Lucia Chinnappa-Quinn
- Department of Anesthesia, Eastern Health, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia; Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, Center for Healthy Brain Aging, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
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- Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, Center for Healthy Brain Aging, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
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- Falls, Balance and Injury Research Center, Neuroscience Research Australia; School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Australia
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- Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, Center for Healthy Brain Aging, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
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- Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia; Department of Anesthesia and Hyperbaric Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, Center for Healthy Brain Aging, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
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- Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, Center for Healthy Brain Aging, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
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- Dementia Center for Research Collaboration, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
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- Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, Center for Healthy Brain Aging, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia; Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.
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Krause BM, Manning HJ, Sabia S, Singh-Manoux A, Sanders RD. Association of Major Surgical Admissions With Quality of Life: 19-Year Follow-up of the Whitehall II Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Study. JAMA Surg 2022; 157:275-277. [PMID: 35080594 PMCID: PMC8792798 DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.7132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Bryan M. Krause
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gosford Hospital, New South Wales, Australia
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- Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Université de Paris, Inserm U1153, Paris, France,Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Université de Paris, Inserm U1153, Paris, France,Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia,Institute of Academic Surgery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Acute peri‐operative neurocognitive disorders: a narrative review. Anaesthesia 2022; 77 Suppl 1:34-42. [DOI: 10.1111/anae.15613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Graham LA, Hawn MT, Dasinger EA, Baker SJ, Oriel BS, Wahl TS, Richman JS, Copeland LA, Itani KM, Burns EA, Whittle J, Morris MS. Psychosocial Determinants of Readmission After Surgery. Med Care 2021; 59:864-871. [PMID: 34149017 PMCID: PMC8425630 DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Quality of life and psychosocial determinants of health, such as health literacy and social support, are associated with increased health care utilization and adverse outcomes in medical populations. However, the effect on surgical health care utilization is less understood. OBJECTIVE We sought to examine the effect of patient-reported quality of life and psychosocial determinants of health on unplanned hospital readmissions in a surgical population. RESEARCH DESIGN This is a prospective cohort study using patient interviews at the time of hospital discharge from a Veterans Affairs hospital. SUBJECTS We include Veterans undergoing elective inpatient general, vascular, or thoracic surgery (August 1, 2015-June 30, 2017). MEASURES We assessed unplanned readmission to any medical facility within 30 days of hospital discharge. RESULTS A total of 736 patients completed the 30-day postoperative follow-up, and 16.3% experienced readmission. Lower patient-reported physical and mental health, inadequate health literacy, and discharge home with help after surgery or to a skilled nursing or rehabilitation facility were associated with an increased incidence of readmission. Classification regression identified the patient-reported Veterans Short Form 12 (SF12) Mental Component Score <31 as the most important psychosocial determinant of readmission after surgery. CONCLUSIONS Mental health concerns, inadequate health literacy, and lower social support after hospital discharge are significant predictors of increased unplanned readmissions after major general, vascular, or thoracic surgery. These elements should be incorporated into routinely collected electronic health record data. Also, discharge plans should accommodate varying levels of health literacy and consider how the patient's mental health and social support needs will affect recovery.
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- Laura A. Graham
- Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
- Department of Surgery, Stanford-Surgery Policy, Improvement Research, and Education (S-SPIRE) Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
- Department of Surgery, Stanford-Surgery Policy, Improvement Research, and Education (S-SPIRE) Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Health Services Research and Development Unit, Birmingham VA Medical Center
- Department of Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Health Services Research and Development Unit, Birmingham VA Medical Center
- Department of Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Boston VA Healthcare System
- Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
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- Health Services Research and Development Unit, Birmingham VA Medical Center
- Department of Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Health Services Research and Development Unit, Birmingham VA Medical Center
- Department of Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds
- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
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- Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Boston VA Healthcare System
- Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
- Department of Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Milwaukee Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
- Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, Manhasset, NY
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- Milwaukee Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Health Services Research and Development Unit, Birmingham VA Medical Center
- Department of Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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Richardson SJ, Lawson R, Davis DHJ, Stephan BCM, Robinson L, Matthews FE, Brayne C, Barnes LE, Taylor JP, Parker SG, Allan LM. Hospitalisation without delirium is not associated with cognitive decline in a population-based sample of older people-results from a nested, longitudinal cohort study. Age Ageing 2021; 50:1675-1681. [PMID: 33945608 PMCID: PMC8437075 DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afab068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Acute hospitalisation and delirium have individually been shown to adversely affect trajectories of cognitive decline but have not previously been considered together. This work aimed to explore the impact on cognition of hospital admission with and without delirium, compared to a control group with no hospital admissions. METHODS The Delirium and Cognitive Impact in Dementia (DECIDE) study was nested within the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II (CFAS II)-Newcastle cohort. CFAS II participants completed two baseline interviews, including the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). During 2016, surviving participants from CFAS II-Newcastle were recruited to DECIDE on admission to hospital. Participants were reviewed daily to determine delirium status.During 2017, all DECIDE participants and age, sex and years of education matched controls without hospital admissions during 2016 were invited to repeat the CFAS II interview. Delirium was excluded in the control group using the Informant Assessment of Geriatric Delirium Scale (i-AGeD). Linear mixed effects modelling determined predictors of cognitive decline. RESULTS During 2016, 82 of 205 (40%) DECIDE participants had at least one episode of delirium. At 1 year, 135 of 205 hospitalised participants completed an interview along with 100 controls. No controls experienced delirium (i-AGeD>4). Delirium was associated with a faster rate of cognitive decline compared to those without delirium (β = -2.2, P < 0.001), but number of hospital admissions was not (P = 0.447). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that delirium during hospitalisation rather than hospitalisation per se is a risk factor for future cognitive decline, emphasising the need for dementia prevention studies that focus on delirium intervention.
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- Sarah J Richardson
- Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Biomedical Research Building, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK
- NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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- Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Biomedical Research Building, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London WC1E 7HB, UK
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- Institute of Mental Health, Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, Nottingham University, Nottingham NG7 2TU, UK
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- Population Health Sciences Institute, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK
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- Population Health Sciences Institute, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK
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- Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
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- Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
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- Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Biomedical Research Building, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK
- NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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- Population Health Sciences Institute, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK
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- Centre for Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health, University of Exeter, Exeter EX1 2LU, UK
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Parker M, White M, Casey C, Kunkel D, Bo A, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Pearce RA, Lennertz R, Sanders RD. Cohort Analysis of the Association of Delirium Severity with Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration Pathologies. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2021; 77:494-501. [PMID: 34260706 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glab203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Delirium is associated with cognitive decline and subsequent dementia, and rises in plasma total Tau (tTau) and neurofilament light (NfL), providing links to Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration (ATN) pathophysiology. We investigated whether changes in delirium severity after surgery correlated with changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ATN biomarkers. Thirty-two thoracic vascular surgical patients were recruited into a prospective biomarker cohort study with assessment of delirium severity and incidence (NCT02926417). CSF (n = 54) and plasma (n = 118) samples were sent for biomarker analysis for tTau, phosphorylated tau-181 (pTau) (plasma n = 53), NfL, and amyloid-β 42/40 ratio (Ab42/40-ratio). The primary outcome was the correlation of preoperative to postoperative change in ATN biomarkers with the highest postoperative Delirium Rating Scale-98 score. CSF and plasma biomarkers all increased postoperatively (all P < .05, n = 13 paired preoperative-postoperative samples). Delirium severity was associated with peak changes in CSF tTau (P = .007, r = 0.710) and pTau (P = .01, r = 0.667) but not NfL (P = .09, rho = 0.491) or Ab42/40-ratio (P = 0.18, rho = 0.394). Sensitivity analysis with exclusion of subjects with putative spinal cord ischaemia shifted the NfL result to significance (P < .001, rho = .847). Our data show that changes in tau and biomarkers of neurodegeneration in the CSF are associated with delirium severity. These data should be considered hypothesis generating and future studies should identify if these changes are robust to confounding.
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- Margaret Parker
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.,Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.,Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden.,Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.,UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
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- University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.,Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.,Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, , Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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Liang CS, Bai YM, Hsu JW, Huang KL, Chu CS, Yeh TC, Tsai SJ, Chen TJ, Chen MH. The Risk of Alzheimer's Disease After Acute Appendicitis With or Without Appendectomy. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2021; 23:601-607.e2. [PMID: 34265267 DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Previous epidemiologic studies have suggested an association between appendectomy and Parkinson's disease. The aim of the current study was to examine the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other types of dementia following appendicitis or appendectomy for appendicitis. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We used claims data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Participants aged ≥45 years with acute appendicitis or who received appendectomy for appendicitis were enrolled and followed up for more than 15 years. Cases and controls underwent 1:1 matching by age, sex, index date, and dementia-related comorbidities. METHODS The primary outcome was AD, and secondary outcomes included other dementia types. Adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) were calculated, and a competing risk regression model was created. The E value for causality of evidence was calculated. RESULTS Patients developing appendicitis (0.6% vs 0.1%, P = .005) and those receiving appendectomy for appendicitis (0.4% vs 0.1%, P = .003) had higher incidences of AD than the controls during the follow-up period. A Cox regression analysis with adjustment for potential confounders showed that patients with appendicitis [aHR 6.68, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.84-24.48] and those receiving appendectomy for appendicitis (aHR 5.01, 95% CI 1.33-18.85) were more likely to develop AD than the controls. These 2 groups also had higher risks for unspecified dementia and all types of dementia but not for vascular dementia than the controls. The age at dementia diagnosis was 88.51 years in the controls; however, among people who developed dementia following appendicitis, the mean age at diagnosis was 70.18 years, and dementia occurred 5.84 years after appendicitis. The competing risk regression models and the E values support the study findings. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS After recovery from appendicitis, these patients should be followed up for signs of AD.
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- Chih-Sung Liang
- Department of Psychiatry, Beitou Branch, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Center for Geriatric and Gerontology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Snyder BD, Simone SM, Giovannetti T, Floyd TF. Cerebral Hypoxia: Its Role in Age-Related Chronic and Acute Cognitive Dysfunction. Anesth Analg 2021; 132:1502-1513. [PMID: 33780389 PMCID: PMC8154662 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000005525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) has been reported with widely varying frequency but appears to be strongly associated with aging. Outside of the surgical arena, chronic and acute cerebral hypoxia may exist as a result of respiratory, cardiovascular, or anemic conditions. Hypoxia has been extensively implicated in cognitive impairment. Furthermore, disease states associated with hypoxia both accompany and progress with aging. Perioperative cerebral hypoxia is likely underdiagnosed, and its contribution to POCD is underappreciated. Herein, we discuss the various disease processes and forms in which hypoxia may contribute to POCD. Furthermore, we outline hypoxia-related mechanisms, such as hypoxia-inducible factor activation, cerebral ischemia, cerebrovascular reserve, excitotoxicity, and neuroinflammation, which may contribute to cognitive impairment and how these mechanisms interact with aging. Finally, we discuss opportunities to prevent and manage POCD related to hypoxia.
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- Brina D. Snyder
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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Whitlock EL, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Smith AK, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky KE, Avidan MS, Glymour MM. Association of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting vs Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Memory Decline in Older Adults Undergoing Coronary Revascularization. JAMA 2021; 325:1955-1964. [PMID: 34003225 PMCID: PMC8132142 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.5150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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IMPORTANCE It is uncertain whether coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is associated with cognitive decline in older adults compared with a nonsurgical method of coronary revascularization (percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI]). OBJECTIVE To compare the change in the rate of memory decline after CABG vs PCI. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective cohort study of community-dwelling participants in the Health and Retirement Study, who underwent CABG or PCI between 1998 and 2015 at age 65 years or older. Data were modeled for up to 5 years preceding and 10 years following revascularization or until death, drop out, or the 2016-2017 interview wave. The date of final follow-up was November 2017. EXPOSURES CABG (including on and off pump) or PCI, ascertained from Medicare fee-for-service billing records. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcome was a summary measure of cognitive test scores and proxy cognition reports that were performed biennially in the Health and Retirement Study, referred to as memory score, normalized as a z score (ie, mean of 0, SD of 1 in a reference population of adults aged ≥72 years). Memory score was analyzed using multivariable linear mixed-effects models, with a prespecified subgroup analysis of on-pump and off-pump CABG. The minimum clinically important difference was a change of 1 SD of the population-level rate of memory decline (0.048 memory units/y). RESULTS Of 1680 participants (mean age at procedure, 75 years; 41% female), 665 underwent CABG (168 off pump) and 1015 underwent PCI. In the PCI group, the mean rate of memory decline was 0.064 memory units/y (95% CI, 0.052 to 0.078) before the procedure and 0.060 memory units/y (95% CI, 0.048 to 0.071) after the procedure (within-group change, 0.004 memory units/y [95% CI, -0.010 to 0.018]). In the CABG group, the mean rate of memory decline was 0.049 memory units/y (95% CI, 0.033 to 0.065) before the procedure and 0.059 memory units/y (95% CI, 0.047 to 0.072) after the procedure (within-group change, -0.011 memory units/y [95% CI, -0.029 to 0.008]). The between-group difference-in-differences estimate for memory decline for PCI vs CABG was 0.015 memory units/y (95% CI, -0.008 to 0.038; P = .21). There was statistically significant increase in the rate of memory decline after off-pump CABG compared with after PCI (difference-in-differences: mean increase in the rate of decline of 0.046 memory units/y [95% CI, 0.008 to 0.084] after off-pump CABG), but not after on-pump CABG compared with PCI (difference-in-differences: mean slowing of decline of 0.003 memory units/y [95% CI, -0.024 to 0.031] after on-pump CABG). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Among older adults undergoing coronary revascularization with CABG or PCI, the type of revascularization procedure was not significantly associated with differences in the change of rate of memory decline.
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- Elizabeth L. Whitlock
- Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- Geriatrics, Palliative, and Extended Care Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
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Mashour GA, Palanca BJA, Basner M, Li D, Wang W, Blain-Moraes S, Lin N, Maier K, Muench M, Tarnal V, Vanini G, Ochroch EA, Hogg R, Schwartz M, Maybrier H, Hardie R, Janke E, Golmirzaie G, Picton P, McKinstry-Wu AR, Avidan MS, Kelz MB. Recovery of consciousness and cognition after general anesthesia in humans. eLife 2021; 10:59525. [PMID: 33970101 PMCID: PMC8163502 DOI: 10.7554/elife.59525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Understanding how the brain recovers from unconsciousness can inform neurobiological theories of consciousness and guide clinical investigation. To address this question, we conducted a multicenter study of 60 healthy humans, half of whom received general anesthesia for 3 hr and half of whom served as awake controls. We administered a battery of neurocognitive tests and recorded electroencephalography to assess cortical dynamics. We hypothesized that recovery of consciousness and cognition is an extended process, with differential recovery of cognitive functions that would commence with return of responsiveness and end with return of executive function, mediated by prefrontal cortex. We found that, just prior to the recovery of consciousness, frontal-parietal dynamics returned to baseline. Consistent with our hypothesis, cognitive reconstitution after anesthesia evolved over time. Contrary to our hypothesis, executive function returned first. Early engagement of prefrontal cortex in recovery of consciousness and cognition is consistent with global neuronal workspace theory.
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- George A Mashour
- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of MedicineSt. LouisUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington UniversitySt. LouisUnited States
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- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington UniversitySt. LouisUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of MedicineSt. LouisUnited States
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- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of MedicineSt. LouisUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn ArborUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of MedicineSt. LouisUnited States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States
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Kannampallil T, Holzer KJ, Abraham J, Naim U, Lenze EJ, Haroutounian S, Avidan MS. Surgical Complications in Older Adults Predict Decline in Self-Perceived Cognitive Function in the Ensuing Year: A Cohort Study. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2021; 29:352-361. [PMID: 32981851 DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2020.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Surgical complications are common among older adults and are potential indicators of poorer long-term outcomes. The authors examined the effects of in-hospital complications on changes in older adults' self-perceived cognitive function in the year after surgery. METHOD The authors conducted a prospective longitudinal study with 2,155 older adults (age ≥ 65) undergoing surgery, investigating the association between self-reported, in-hospital complications after surgery and Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Applied Cognition-Abilities survey (4 items, cognitive function) at 30 days and 1 year after surgery. Surveys were scored on a continuous scale of 0-100, with higher scores representing better self-perceived cognitive functioning. Patient characteristics including demographics, type of complications, surgery type, pain, and activities of daily living were also collected. RESULTS Having one in-hospital complication was associated with a decrease of 1.79 points (95% confidence interval (CI): -2.78, -0.80), indicating lower self-perceived cognitive functioning at 1 year after surgery; having two or more in-hospital complications was associated with 2.82 point (95% CI: -4.50, -1.15) decrease at 1 year after surgery. Models specific to complication type indicated that respiratory [-3.04, (95% CI: -5.50, -0.57)], neural [-2.11, (95% CI: -3.97, -0.25)], and general complications [-2.39, (95% CI: -3.51, -1.28)] were associated with statistically significant decreases in cognitive function. DISCUSSION Older surgical patients who suffer in-hospital complications show greater decline in self-perceived cognitive function during the ensuing year. Geriatric specialists may be able to intervene in the immediate perioperative period to reduce complications and possibly mitigate cognitive decline among older adults.
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- Thomas Kannampallil
- Department of Anesthesiology (TK, KJH, JA, UN, SH, MSA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; Institute for Informatics (TK, JA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.
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- Department of Anesthesiology (TK, KJH, JA, UN, SH, MSA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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- Department of Anesthesiology (TK, KJH, JA, UN, SH, MSA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; Institute for Informatics (TK, JA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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- Department of Anesthesiology (TK, KJH, JA, UN, SH, MSA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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- Department of Psychiatry (EJL), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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- Department of Anesthesiology (TK, KJH, JA, UN, SH, MSA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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- Department of Anesthesiology (TK, KJH, JA, UN, SH, MSA), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The world's population is ageing. Although regional anaesthesia is well established, it seems there is limited evidence to support its use over general anaesthesia in the elderly. This review aims to examine recent publications of regional anaesthesia in relation to this specific patient subgroup. RECENT FINDINGS There is a paucity of evidence specifically relating to regional anaesthesia in the elderly patient. Studies tend to be small, retrospective and can combine assessment of multiple surgical and anaesthetic techniques in single studies. Surgical stimulus and the associated stress response are linked with an increased risk of morbidity in elderly patients. Regional anaesthesia is associated with reduced morbidity, improved pain scores, improved patient satisfaction and reduced resource allocation. Regional anaesthesia can potentially offset some of the surgical stress response and should be considered as part of a multimodal and, where possible, the primary approach to anaesthesia and analgesia in the elderly patient. SUMMARY Undoubtedly, peripheral nerve blocks improve analgesia and reduce opioid consumption and their associated side effects. This is beneficial in the perioperative care of elderly patients who may have less physiologic reserve to withstand these side effects. Future large prospective trials are required to evaluate the duration of action and safety profile of local anaesthetic agents and adjunct agents in the older patient.
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- Eva Corcoran
- Galway University Hospital, Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland
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Uzoigwe CE, O'Leary L, Nduka J, Sharma D, Melling D, Simmons D, Barton S. Factors associated with delirium and cognitive decline following hip fracture surgery. Bone Joint J 2020; 102-B:1675-1681. [PMID: 33249907 DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.102b12.bjj-2019-1537.r3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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AIMS Postoperative delirium (POD) and postoperative cognitive decline (POCD) are common surgical complications. In the UK, the Best Practice Tariff incentivizes the screening of delirium in patients with hip fracture. Further, a National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) performance indicator is the reduction in the incidence of POD. To aid in its recognition, we sought to determine factors associated with POD and POCD in patients with hip fractures. METHODS We interrogated the NHFD data on patients presenting with hip fractures to our institution from 2016 to 2018. POD was determined using the 4AT score, as recommended by the NHFD and UK Department of Health. POCD was defined as a decline in Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS) of two or greater. Using logistic regression, we adjusted for covariates to identify factors associated with POD and POCD. RESULTS Of the 1,224 patients presenting in the study period, 1,023 had complete datasets for final analysis. POD was observed in 242 patients (25%). On multivariate analysis only preoperative AMTS and American Society of Anesthesiologists grade (ASA) were independent predictors of POD. Every point increase in AMTS was associated with a fall in the odds of POD by a factor of 0.60 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.56 to 0.63, p < 0.001). Every grade increase in ASA led to a 1.7-fold increase in the odds of POD (95% CI 1.13 to 2.50, p = 0.009). A preoperative AMTS of less than 8 was strongly predictive of POD with area under the receiver operating characteristic of 0.86 (95% CI 0.84 to 0.89). Only ASA was predictive of POCD-every grade increase in ASA led to a 2.6-fold increase in the odds of POCD (95% CI 1.7 to 4.0, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION POD and POCD are common in the hip fracture patients. Preoperative AMTS and ASA are strong predictors of POD, and ASA predictive of POCD. This may aid in the earlier identification of those most at risk and suited for the patient consent and decision-making process. Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2020;102-B(12):1675-1681.
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- Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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Zapatero-Gaviria A, Gonzalo-Pascua S. Proposed organizational changes in the right direction. Rev Clin Esp 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rceng.2019.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Zapatero-Gaviria A, Gonzalo-Pascua S. Proposed organisational changes in the right direction. Rev Clin Esp 2020; 220:571-572. [PMID: 31810561 DOI: 10.1016/j.rce.2019.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- A Zapatero-Gaviria
- Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, España.
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- Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, España
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Chen X, Wen H, Wang J, Yi Y, Wu J, Liao X. Conversion between Mini-Mental State Examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores in older adults undergoing selective surgery using Rasch analysis. J Adv Nurs 2020; 77:729-741. [PMID: 33249626 DOI: 10.1111/jan.14638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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AIMS To develop and validate a conversion table between the MMSE and the MoCA using Rasch analysis in older adults undergoing selective surgery and examine its diagnostic accuracy in detecting cognitive impairment. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS Older patients [N = 129; age 66.0 (4.6) years, education 7.7 (3.5) years] undergoing elective surgery were recruited from December 2017 to June 2018. All participants completed the MMSE and MoCA and 113 of them completed a battery of neuropsychological tests. Common person linking based on Rasch analysis was performed to develop the conversion table. The conversions were validated by calculating the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), score differences between actual and converted scores, and root mean squared error of the difference (RMSE). The diagnostic accuracy of the conversions for detecting cognitive impairment was also tested. RESULTS The MoCA [person measure: 1.3 (1.1) logits] was better targeted to the patients than the MMSE [person measure: 3.2 (1.3) logits]. Conversion from MoCA to MMSE scores (ICC 0.84, 95% CI 0.77-0.88; RMSE 1.36) was more precise than conversion from MMSE to MoCA (ICC 0.82, 95% CI 0.75-0.87; RMSE 2.56). Conversion from MoCA to MMSE demonstrated better diagnostic accuracy in detecting cognitive impairment than the actual MMSE, whereas conversion from MMSE to MoCA exhibited the opposite pattern. CONCLUSION Conversion from MoCA to MMSE was more precise and had better diagnostic accuracy in detecting pre-operative cognitive impairment in older patients undergoing selective surgery than conversion from MMSE into MoCA. IMPACT The finding is useful for interpreting, comparing, and integrating cognitive measurements in surgical settings and clinical research. Statistically sound conversion between MoCA and MMSE based on Rasch analysis is now possible for surgical setting and clinical research.
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- Xiaoying Chen
- Zengcheng Branch, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Zengcheng Branch, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Zengcheng Branch, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Zengcheng Branch, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Zengcheng Branch, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.,School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Zengcheng Branch, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Ballweg T, White M, Parker M, Casey C, Bo A, Farahbakhsh Z, Kayser A, Blair A, Lindroth H, Pearce RA, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Lennertz R, Sanders RD. Association between plasma tau and postoperative delirium incidence and severity: a prospective observational study. Br J Anaesth 2020; 126:458-466. [PMID: 33228978 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Postoperative delirium is associated with increases in the neuronal injury biomarker, neurofilament light (NfL). Here we tested whether two other biomarkers, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and tau, are associated with postoperative delirium. METHODS A total of 114 surgical patients were recruited into two prospective biomarker cohort studies with assessment of delirium severity and incidence. Plasma samples were sent for biomarker analysis including tau, NfL, and GFAP, and a panel of 10 cytokines. We determined a priori to adjust for interleukin-8 (IL-8), a marker of inflammation, when assessing associations between biomarkers and delirium incidence and severity. RESULTS GFAP concentrations showed no relationship to delirium. The change in tau from preoperative concentrations to postoperative Day 1 was greater in patients with postoperative delirium (P<0.001) and correlated with delirium severity (ρ=0.39, P<0.001). The change in tau correlated with increases in IL-8 (P<0.001) and IL-10 (P=0.0029). Linear regression showed that the relevant clinical predictors of tau changes were age (P=0.037), prior stroke/transient ischaemic attack (P=0.001), and surgical blood loss (P<0.001). After adjusting for age, sex, preoperative cognition, and change in IL-8, tau remained significantly associated with delirium severity (P=0.026). Using linear mixed effect models, only tau (not NfL or IL-8) predicted recovery from delirium (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS The change in plasma tau was associated with delirium incidence and severity, and resolved over time in parallel with delirium features. The impact of this putative perioperative neuronal injury biomarker on long-term cognition merits further investigation. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT02926417 and NCT03124303.
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- Tyler Ballweg
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Center for Aging Research, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
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Velkers C, Berger M, Gill SS, Eckenhoff R, Stuart H, Whitehead M, Austin PC, Rochon PA, Seitz D. Association Between Exposure to General Versus Regional Anesthesia and Risk of Dementia in Older Adults. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020; 69:58-67. [PMID: 33025584 DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 08/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Cognitive changes are commonly observed in older adults following surgical procedures. There are concerns that exposure to general anesthesia (GA) may contribute to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. Our study examined the associations between exposure to GA compared with regional anesthesia (RA) administered for elective surgical procedures and the development of dementia. DESIGN Population-based propensity matched retrospective cohort study. SETTING Linked administrative databases were accessed from ICES (formerly called the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Services) in Ontario, Canada. PARTICIPANTS We included all community-dwelling individuals aged 66 and older who underwent one of five elective surgical procedures in Ontario, Canada, between April 1, 2007, and March 31, 2011. Individuals with evidence of dementia preceding cohort entry were excluded. Individuals who received GA were matched within surgical procedures to those who received RA on age, sex, cohort entry year, and a propensity score to control for potential confounders. MEASUREMENTS The baseline characteristics of the study sample were compared before and after matching. Individuals were followed for up to 5 years following cohort entry for the occurrence of dementia using a validated algorithm. Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to determine the hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the association between anesthetic type and dementia. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses were undertaken. RESULTS A total of 7,499 matched pairs were included in the final analysis. Overall, no difference was observed in the risk of being diagnosed with dementia for individuals who received GA when compared with RA (HR = 1.0; 95% CI = .8-1.2). There was also no association between anesthesia and dementia in most subgroup and sensitivity analyses. CONCLUSION Elective surgery using GA was not associated with an overall elevated risk of dementia when compared with RA. Future studies are required to determine whether surgery is a risk factor for dementia irrespective of anesthetic technique.
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- Clive Velkers
- Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.,ICES, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- ICES, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- ICES, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Robert D. Sanders, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Ph.D., F.R.C.A., Recipient of the 2020 James E. Cottrell, M.D., Presidential Scholar Award. Anesthesiology 2020; 133:720-723. [DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000003512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Relationship between Urinary Alzheimer-Associated Neuronal Thread Protein and Apolipoprotein Epsilon 4 Allele in the Cognitively Normal Population. Neural Plast 2020; 2020:9742138. [PMID: 32587611 PMCID: PMC7294364 DOI: 10.1155/2020/9742138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2020] [Revised: 04/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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We investigated the relationship between urinary Alzheimer-associated neuronal thread protein (AD7c-NTP) levels and apolipoprotein epsilon 4 (ApoE ɛ4) alleles, as well as other factors that cause cognitive decline, in the cognitively normal population. We recruited 329 cognitively normal right-handed Han Chinese subjects who completed ApoE gene testing and urinary AD7c-NTP testing. There was no significant difference in urinary AD7c-NTP levels between the normal control and subjective cognitive decline groups. Urinary AD7c-NTP levels were significantly higher in subjects with ApoE ɛ3/4 and 4/4 [0.6074 (0.6541) ng/mL] than in subjects without ApoE ɛ4 [0.4368 (0.3392) ng/mL and 0.5287 (0.3656) ng/mL], and urinary AD7c-NTP levels positively correlated with ApoE genotype grade (r = 0.165, p = 0.003). There were significant differences in urinary AD7c-NTP levels between subjects with and without a history of coronary heart disease or diabetes. Urinary AD7c-NTP levels were not related to years of education, nature of work, family history of dementia, a history of hypertension, stroke, anemia, or thyroid dysfunction. Urinary AD7c-NTP levels were positively correlated with ApoE grade in the cognitively normal population. The relationship between risk factors of cognitive decline and urinary AD7c-NTP levels provides a new way for us to understand AD and urinary AD7c-NTP.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Cognitive decline is frequently reported after hospitalisation in the contexts of surgery, delirium and critical care. The question not adequately addressed is whether all types of acute hospitalisations increase the risk of cognitive decline. As acute hospitalisations are common in the elderly, who are also vulnerable to cognitive decline, this possible association is of significant concern. RECENT FINDINGS This review summarises cognitive outcomes from recent observational studies investigating acute hospitalisation (emergent and elective) in older age adults. Studies were identified from searching Medline, Embase and PsycINFO databases and citations lists. The highest incidence of cognitive decline has been reported following critical care admissions and admissions complicated by delirium, although all types of acute hospitalisations are implicated. Age is the most consistent risk factor for cognitive decline. Several etiological and therapeutic aspects are being investigated, particularly the measurement of inflammatory biomarkers and treatment with anti-inflammatory medications. SUMMARY Acute hospitalisation for any reason appears to increase the risk of cognitive decline in older adults, but the cause remains elusive. Future research must clarify the nature and modifiers of posthospitalisation cognitive change, a priority in the face of an ageing population.
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Improving peri-operative outcome: Time once more to update protocols. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2020; 37:625-628. [PMID: 32073410 DOI: 10.1097/eja.0000000000001168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Whitlock EL, Grisell Diaz-Ramirez L, Avidan MS. Surgery and persistent cognitive decline: a commentary and an independent discussion. Br J Anaesth 2019; 124:229-234. [PMID: 31839254 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2019.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2019] [Revised: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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- Elizabeth L Whitlock
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Bamji AN. Prolong the use of oxygen following surgery to improve cognitive trajectory. BMJ 2019; 366:l5483. [PMID: 31515262 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l5483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Clinical News. Br J Hosp Med (Lond) 2019; 80:496-499. [DOI: 10.12968/hmed.2019.80.9.496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Carol Brayne
- Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
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- Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK
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