A Common Anesthesiology Procedure for a Patient with an Uncommon Combination of Diseases: A Case Report

Administering neuraxial anesthesia to a patient with an underlying neurological disease and a combination of four other pathological disorders can be challenging. We report in this paper the case of a 45-year-old woman with neurological deficit due to ischemic brain infarct, multiple sclerosis, anti...

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Autores principales: Tympa, Aliki, Hassiakos, Dimitrios, Salakos, Nikolaos, Melemeni, Aikaterini
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/PMC3530764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23304562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/748748
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Sumario:Administering neuraxial anesthesia to a patient with an underlying neurological disease and a combination of four other pathological disorders can be challenging. We report in this paper the case of a 45-year-old woman with neurological deficit due to ischemic brain infarct, multiple sclerosis, antiphospholipid syndrome, and β-heterozygous thalassemia that was subjected to abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingoophorectomy under epidural anesthesia for ovarian cancer.

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