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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, HSC T-19 Rm 80, Stony Brook, NY 11794

(Email: tbilfinger@notes.cc.sunysb.edu).

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Compared with congenital cardiac surgery, there is only very scant knowledge available regarding the occurrence of seizures in adult cardiac surgery. One of the earlier studies reported an incidence of 0.3% of seizures in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients [1]. Those were clinically easily detectable tonic clonic seizures, which points to a fundamental problem with investigations of that subject. For example, a clinically obvious event has to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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