Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure

We report the development of Harlequin Syndrome following thoracic epidural placement in a pediatric patient. Unilateral facial flushing with contralateral pallor and anhidrosis is the clinical presentation. This syndrome is typically benign. When related to regional anesthesia, treatment involves r...

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Autores principales: Lefevre, Ashley, Schnepper, Gregory
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1097
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spelling pubmed-55822282017-09-06 Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure Lefevre, Ashley Schnepper, Gregory Clin Case Rep Case Reports We report the development of Harlequin Syndrome following thoracic epidural placement in a pediatric patient. Unilateral facial flushing with contralateral pallor and anhidrosis is the clinical presentation. This syndrome is typically benign. When related to regional anesthesia, treatment involves reducing the local anesthetic infusion or stopping it altogether. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5582228/ /pubmed/28878918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1097 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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Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure
title Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure
title_full Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure
title_fullStr Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure
title_full_unstemmed Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure
title_short Development of Harlequin Syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing Nuss procedure
title_sort development of harlequin syndrome following placement of thoracic epidural anesthesia in a pediatric patient undergoing nuss procedure
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1097
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