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Is there a connection between dementia and heart and renal failure?

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Organ failure: Decreased cardiac output and the chemical poisons left in the blood with renal failure can both impair cerebral function.

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Answered 6/25/2013

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Dr. Alan Steinberg answered

Specializes in Psychiatry - Geriatric

Sort of: There is more of a connection between delirium and those scenarios, but the same things that cause renal and heart failure also cause brain failure...

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Answered 5/27/2019

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