Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by Subdural Hygromas and a Subdural Hematoma

Inadvertent dural puncture during epidural anesthesia leads to intracranial hypotension, which if left unnoticed can cause life-threatening subdural hematomas or cerebellar tonsillar herniation. The highly variable presentation of intracranial hypotension hinders timely diagnosis and treatment. We p...

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Autores principales: Vien, Christine, Marovic, Paul, Ingram, Brendan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5019880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27651956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5789504
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description Inadvertent dural puncture during epidural anesthesia leads to intracranial hypotension, which if left unnoticed can cause life-threatening subdural hematomas or cerebellar tonsillar herniation. The highly variable presentation of intracranial hypotension hinders timely diagnosis and treatment. We present the case of a young laboring adult female, who developed subdural hygromas and a subdural hematoma following unintentional dural puncture during initiation of epidural anesthesia.
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spelling pubmed-50198802016-09-20 Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by Subdural Hygromas and a Subdural Hematoma Vien, Christine Marovic, Paul Ingram, Brendan Case Rep Anesthesiol Case Report Inadvertent dural puncture during epidural anesthesia leads to intracranial hypotension, which if left unnoticed can cause life-threatening subdural hematomas or cerebellar tonsillar herniation. The highly variable presentation of intracranial hypotension hinders timely diagnosis and treatment. We present the case of a young laboring adult female, who developed subdural hygromas and a subdural hematoma following unintentional dural puncture during initiation of epidural anesthesia. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5019880/ /pubmed/27651956 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5789504 Text en Copyright © 2016 Christine Vien et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by Subdural Hygromas and a Subdural Hematoma
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title_full Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by Subdural Hygromas and a Subdural Hematoma
title_fullStr Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by Subdural Hygromas and a Subdural Hematoma
title_full_unstemmed Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by Subdural Hygromas and a Subdural Hematoma
title_short Epidural Anesthesia Complicated by Subdural Hygromas and a Subdural Hematoma
title_sort epidural anesthesia complicated by subdural hygromas and a subdural hematoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5019880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27651956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5789504
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