Cognitive function in patients undergoing cystectomy for bladder cancer - results from a prospective observational study.
Camilla Marisa GrunewaldVera FeldmeierTillmann SupprianPeter AlbersMarkus GiessingGuenter NiegischPublished in: Therapeutic advances in urology (2022)
Mild cognitive impairment was observed in more than a quarter of radical cystectomy patients prior to surgery. Preoperative assessment should be supplemented by neuropsychological testing such as the DemTect as mild cognitive impairment is often underestimated and associated with significantly higher perioperative complication rates.
Keyphrases
- mild cognitive impairment
- patients undergoing
- cognitive decline
- end stage renal disease
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- cardiac surgery
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- robot assisted
- squamous cell carcinoma
- coronary artery bypass
- coronary artery disease
- lymph node
- acute kidney injury