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Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease

Acute liver dysfunction in the perioperative period may increase the risk of epidural hematoma in a patient with a neuraxial catheter. Coagulation testing needs to be carefully monitored in these patients. An epidural hematoma should be ruled out urgently by CT or MRI in cases of a persistent motor...

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Autores principales: Sathyamoorthy, Madhankumar, Walker, Benjamin, Rhodes, Melissa M., Eriator, Ike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1016
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description Acute liver dysfunction in the perioperative period may increase the risk of epidural hematoma in a patient with a neuraxial catheter. Coagulation testing needs to be carefully monitored in these patients. An epidural hematoma should be ruled out urgently by CT or MRI in cases of a persistent motor block.
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spelling pubmed-54943992017-07-05 Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease Sathyamoorthy, Madhankumar Walker, Benjamin Rhodes, Melissa M. Eriator, Ike Clin Case Rep Case Reports Acute liver dysfunction in the perioperative period may increase the risk of epidural hematoma in a patient with a neuraxial catheter. Coagulation testing needs to be carefully monitored in these patients. An epidural hematoma should be ruled out urgently by CT or MRI in cases of a persistent motor block. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5494399/ /pubmed/28680607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1016 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sathyamoorthy, Madhankumar
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Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease
title Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease
title_full Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease
title_fullStr Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease
title_full_unstemmed Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease
title_short Spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease
title_sort spinal epidural hematoma following a thoracic epidural in a child with sickle cell disease
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1016
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