Cerebral Subdural Hematoma Following Spinal Anesthesia: Report of Two Cases

Postdural puncture headache and cerebral subdural hematoma are among complications of spinal anesthesia with some common characteristics; however misdiagnosis of these two could result in a catastrophic outcome or prevent unwanted results by urgent interventions. With the purpose of increasing aware...

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Autores principales: Moradi, Mehrdad, Shami, Shoaleh, Farhadifar, Fariba, Nesseri, Karim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3318898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/352028
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author Moradi, Mehrdad
Shami, Shoaleh
Farhadifar, Fariba
Nesseri, Karim
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description Postdural puncture headache and cerebral subdural hematoma are among complications of spinal anesthesia with some common characteristics; however misdiagnosis of these two could result in a catastrophic outcome or prevent unwanted results by urgent interventions. With the purpose of increasing awareness of such complications and a speedy diagnosis, we report two cases of postspinal anesthesia headache that was timely diagnosed as cerebral subdural hematoma and prevented the likelihood of a disastrous outcome.
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spelling pubmed-33188982012-04-25 Cerebral Subdural Hematoma Following Spinal Anesthesia: Report of Two Cases Moradi, Mehrdad Shami, Shoaleh Farhadifar, Fariba Nesseri, Karim Case Rep Med Case Report Postdural puncture headache and cerebral subdural hematoma are among complications of spinal anesthesia with some common characteristics; however misdiagnosis of these two could result in a catastrophic outcome or prevent unwanted results by urgent interventions. With the purpose of increasing awareness of such complications and a speedy diagnosis, we report two cases of postspinal anesthesia headache that was timely diagnosed as cerebral subdural hematoma and prevented the likelihood of a disastrous outcome. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3318898/ /pubmed/22536262 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/352028 Text en Copyright © 2012 Mehrdad Moradi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Cerebral Subdural Hematoma Following Spinal Anesthesia: Report of Two Cases
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title_sort cerebral subdural hematoma following spinal anesthesia: report of two cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3318898/
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