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The neurological risk of cardiac surgery is still not well characterized, but post-operative strokes occur in 3-9% of patients. A decrease in intra-operative blood pressure and increased cardiopulmonary bypass time may result in watershed infarcts.
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Treatment of Parkinson's disease with dopamine agonist medications may precipitate impulse-control disorders such as compulsive gambling, buying, and hypersexuality
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Ginkgo biloba has been used by practitioners of Eastern medicine for centuries to boost memory and other health purposes.
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Cluster headache may be accompanied by a variety of neurological manifestations, and responds well to triptans and oxygen therapy.
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Patients with myopathies induced by lipid-lowering drugs, including statins and fibrates, have an increased rate of genetic muscle disorders.
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Until now, neurologists have relied on large studies of patients with coronary atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia who were treated with statins and were found, as a secondary outcome, to have a reduced risk of ischemic stroke.
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Active migraine with aura increases risk of myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, and angina, as well as ischemic stroke. Active migraine without aura and non-migraine headaches are not associated with increased vascular risk.
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This retrospective 'real-life' single-center study found that therapeutic hypothermia could be readily implemented and that it improved outcomes in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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