Postoperative neurocognitive disorder (PND) is a clinically important complication in older surgical patients. Microglial inflammatory activation is frequently accompanied by altered cellular metabolism, but whether esketamine-associated neuroprotection is accompanied by bioenergetic changes in hippocampal CD11b-enriched cell fractions remains incompletely understood. A tibial fracture model...
To investigate the effect of esketamine on postoperative depression in frail elderly patients undergoing thoracoscopic radical resection of lung cancer. A total of 88 frail elderly patients undergoing elective thoracoscopic radical resection of lung cancer were assigned randomly (using a randomization table) and in a double-blind way (blinding applies to both researchers and patients) to an...