Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report

BACKGROUND: Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon (KMP) is characterized by a vascular tumor with profound thrombocytopenia and consumptive coagulopathy that may presents significant challenges for anesthesiologist. CASE PRESENTATION: An 87-year-old man presented with kaposiform hemangioendothelioma involving...

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Autores principales: Elkoundi, Abdelghafour, Samali, Mehdi, Kartite, Noureddine, Tbouda, Mohammed, Bensghir, Mustapha, Haimeur, Charki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27829366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-016-0278-y
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author Elkoundi, Abdelghafour
Samali, Mehdi
Kartite, Noureddine
Tbouda, Mohammed
Bensghir, Mustapha
Haimeur, Charki
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description BACKGROUND: Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon (KMP) is characterized by a vascular tumor with profound thrombocytopenia and consumptive coagulopathy that may presents significant challenges for anesthesiologist. CASE PRESENTATION: An 87-year-old man presented with kaposiform hemangioendothelioma involving the right leg in critical condition due to massive bleeding. Hematology investigations indicated the presence of KMP. Association of this type of tumor with KMP in adults has never been reported. CONCLUSION: The present case report lays an emphasis on the potential difficulties during anesthetic management of this rare condition.
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spelling pubmed-51017282016-11-10 Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report Elkoundi, Abdelghafour Samali, Mehdi Kartite, Noureddine Tbouda, Mohammed Bensghir, Mustapha Haimeur, Charki BMC Anesthesiol Case Report BACKGROUND: Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon (KMP) is characterized by a vascular tumor with profound thrombocytopenia and consumptive coagulopathy that may presents significant challenges for anesthesiologist. CASE PRESENTATION: An 87-year-old man presented with kaposiform hemangioendothelioma involving the right leg in critical condition due to massive bleeding. Hematology investigations indicated the presence of KMP. Association of this type of tumor with KMP in adults has never been reported. CONCLUSION: The present case report lays an emphasis on the potential difficulties during anesthetic management of this rare condition. BioMed Central 2016-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5101728/ /pubmed/27829366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-016-0278-y Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Bensghir, Mustapha
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Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report
title Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report
title_full Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report
title_fullStr Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report
title_full_unstemmed Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report
title_short Anesthestic management of Kassabach-Meritt Phenomenon in an adult: case report
title_sort anesthestic management of kassabach-meritt phenomenon in an adult: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101728/
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