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Relationship among anesthesia technique, surgical stress, and cognitive dysfunction following spinal surgery: a randomized trial.
Abstract
Surgical trauma is known to result in systemic inflammatory changes that can lead to postoperative cognitive dysfunction. In the present study, the authors compared the effects of an epidural anesthesia protocol to those of traditional anesthesia with regard to postoperative inflammatory changes, cellular immunity, and cognitive dysfunction.