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1 Abnormalities in the Brain Before Elective Cardiac Surgery Detected by Diffusion- Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging  Kengo Maekawa, MD, Tomoko Goto, MD, Tomoko Baba, MD, Atsushi Yoshitake, MD, Shoji Morishita, MD, Takaaki Koshiji, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 86, Issue 5, Pages (November 2008) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a 67-year-old man (patient 5, Table 2) without any demonstrable neurologic deficits before off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery. (A) The preoperative MRI scan revealed a small diffusion abnormality on the left posterior limb of the internal capsule. (B) Another scan performed 5 days after surgery demonstrated that the size of the diffusion restriction lesion had increased; the patient had dysarthria and right hemiparesis. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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