Neuropsychological performance as a function of cardiac status among heart transplant candidates: a replication.
Percept Mot Skills
; 91(3 Pt 1): 821-5, 2000 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
This study examined the relationship between cardiac function and cognitive test performance among candidates for heart transplant. Participants were 26 individuals undergoing heart catheterization within one day of completing a battery of cognitive tests. Partial correlation analyses controlling for age and education were used to examine the relationship between cardiac function and cognitive performance. Results replicate previous findings in that increasing hemodynamic pressure variables, e.g., pulmonary artery systolic pressure, were associated with decreased cognitive performance on a measure of psychomotor speed and attention (Trail Making Test-Part A r=.53). In contrast, cardiac output and cardiac index appeared to be not significantly related to cognitive performance. Taken together, poor performance on cognitive tests among heart transplant candidates appears to be attentionally mediated.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Complicações Pós-Operatórias
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Isquemia Encefálica
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Transplante de Coração
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Transtornos Cognitivos
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Hemodinâmica
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Testes Neuropsicológicos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Percept Mot Skills
Ano de publicação:
2000
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos