Postoperative amnesia in a patient undergoing general anesthesia for electro-physiologic (EP) catheter ablation of an irritable atrial focus.

Aris Sophocles, Linda Chen, David Lin, Renyu Liu

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Article in Translational perioperative and pain medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Aris SophoclesDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Linda ChenDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

David LinPenn Heart and Vascular Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Renyu LiuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania · US

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Structural Approaches for Understanding Opioid and ??-Receptor InteractionsK08GM093115 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LIU, RENYU · 2010 to 2013

$505k

NIGMS NIH HHS K08 GM093115

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Abstract

This case report describes the anesthetic management of a 67-year-old who underwent a catheter based pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) of long-standing, persistent atrial fibrillation. When the patient awoke from the 6.5 hour procedure, he was found to have a transient retrograde and anterograde amnesia that persisted for 18-24 hours postoperatively. This is a unique instance of global amnesia following a cardiac ablation procedure under prolonged general anesthesia. This case study highlights important topics in postoperative cognitive deficits including the differential diagnosis, risk factors, and strategies for optimizing patient outcomes in high risk procedures.

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