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KMID : 0616620100160010123
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Journal of Soonchunhyang Medical College
2010 Volume.16 No. 1 p.123 ~ p.126
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Mild Cognitive Dysfunction in Jehovah’s Witness with Severe Anemia
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Park Sun-Young
Hwang In-Sung
Kim Mun-Gyu
Kim Sang-Ho
Ok Si-Young
Kim Soon-Im
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Abstract
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After right hemicolectomy, postoperative bleeding led to life-threatening anemia in 60-yr-old Jehovah‘s Witness who refused blood transfusion. Hemoglobin level decreased to 4.1 g/dl. The patient maintained consciousness and self ventilation, because he refused sedation and ventilatory assistance. He demonstrated mild cognitive dysfunction in mini-mental state examination despite presented alert mental state and hemodynamical stability. Therefore, in severe anemic patients, recommend cognitive function test even in the hemodynamically stable patients.
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KEYWORD
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Complicaitons, Anemia, Jehovah’s witnesses
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