Delirium after kidney transplantation increases risk of dementia, cognitive decline

Patients who experience delirium after a kidney transplantation are at an increased risk for dementia and cognitive decline, according to data published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

“While there have been studies of the cognitive sequelae of delirium in other surgical populations, kidney transplantation (KT) is a unique surgery in which the restoration of kidney function improves cognition on average,” Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco, PhD, an associate professor of surgery and population health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, told Healio. Read the full story in Healio.