Heart-Lung Machine May Not Be the Culprit in Post-Op "Pump Head" Syndrome

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 08:14 in Health & Medicine

In the months after he had surgery to fix his defective heart valve, Bruce Stutz didn't feel quite the same. It wasn't his physical fitness that was subpar, although that did require some post-op retraining, but rather his mental capacity. "I couldn't muster the concentration to deal with the problem," he wrote in a 2003 article for Scientific American . [More]

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