Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- * Patients with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) scheduled for Bypass Grafting (CABG)
- * Thiamine deficiency before CABG
- * European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II (EuroSCORE II) \>1.5%
- * Off-pump surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
- * Dementia at baseline \[Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) \<21 within 5 days before CABG\]
- * Current in-take of thiamine
- * Known thiamine allergy
- * Uncontrolled blood glucose levels
- * Unable to give consent due to illness
- * History of hyperlactatemia
- * Recent (within several years and/or up to the judgment of the PI/co-PIs) cerebral incidents (seizure or head trauma resulting in loss of consciousness and/or concussion)
- * Stroke
- * Diagnosed psychiatric diseases (clinical depression, schizophrenia, manic-depression)
- * Patients with history of alcohol or substance abuse
- * Acute or chronic infections (tuberculosis, hepatitis, or encephalopathy)
- * Diagnosed neuro-degenerative diseases (Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease)
- * Chronic immunodeficiency (including HIV)
- * Congenital brain deficits will also be excluded
Ages Eligible for Study:
60 Years to 80 Years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No