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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiol Clin. 2008 Sep;26(3):521–538. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2008.03.003

Table 1.

Clinical forms of brain injury and relative frequencies

Clinical manifestation Frequency
Stroke
  Low risk patient ≤ 1%
  High risk patient 5% to 16%
Encephalopathy 8.4% to 32%
Neurocognitive dysfunction
  Hospital discharge 40% to 75%
  One Month after surgery 12% to 30%