Preoperative stress markers as predictors of postoperative neuropsychological disorders in cardiac surgery patients: protocol for a single-centre prospective observational study (CAVALIR)
Marius Butz, Rolf Meyer, Tibo Gerriets, Carolin Hänsel, Hannah Schmidt, Jana Yasemin Bach, Alicia Marek, Marlene Tschernatsch, Omar Alhaj-Omar, Patrick Schramm, Heidrun H Krämer, Yeong-Hoon Choi, Samuel Sossalla, Till Keller, Markus Schoenburg, Martin Juenemann · 2026
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Marius Butz and colleagues lay out a study plan on stress signs before heart surgery in a 2026 protocol. Confusion, thinking problems, and emotional distress often follow cardiac operations, yet who is at risk stays hard to spot beforehand. Stress measures taken before surgery are the candidate warnings here.
At one German clinic, 240 patients having bypass or valve surgery with a heart-lung machine will be enrolled in equal halves. Personality, felt stress, anxiety, mood, saliva cortisol, and heart rhythm variation will be recorded before the operation. Delirium and later thinking and mood checks run to three months after surgery, testing whether stress profiles can flag patients for prevention.
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| CREATOR | Marius Butz, Rolf Meyer, Tibo Gerriets, Carolin Hänsel, Hannah Schmidt, Jana Yasemin Bach, Alicia Marek, Marlene Tschernatsch, Omar Alhaj-Omar, Patrick Schramm, Heidrun H Krämer, Yeong-Hoon Choi, Samuel Sossalla, Till Keller, Markus Schoenburg, Martin Juenemann |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32892 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |