Foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery: a case report

Neurological complications after spinal anesthesia have been rarely reported. Persistent neurological dysfunction due to spinal cord or nerve root injury is a serious complication of lumbar anesthesia and manifests as leg pain, numbness, and weakness after initial recovery from anesthesia. We herein...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Wendong, Ma, Xingxing, Chen, Jiaxin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947685/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231153601
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description Neurological complications after spinal anesthesia have been rarely reported. Persistent neurological dysfunction due to spinal cord or nerve root injury is a serious complication of lumbar anesthesia and manifests as leg pain, numbness, and weakness after initial recovery from anesthesia. We herein report a case of foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery. The patient’s symptoms completely disappeared after 3 months, and we consider that her neurological complications were likely caused by the neurotoxicity of local anesthetics.
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spelling pubmed-99476852023-02-24 Foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery: a case report Zhang, Wendong Ma, Xingxing Chen, Jiaxin J Int Med Res Case Reports Neurological complications after spinal anesthesia have been rarely reported. Persistent neurological dysfunction due to spinal cord or nerve root injury is a serious complication of lumbar anesthesia and manifests as leg pain, numbness, and weakness after initial recovery from anesthesia. We herein report a case of foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery. The patient’s symptoms completely disappeared after 3 months, and we consider that her neurological complications were likely caused by the neurotoxicity of local anesthetics. SAGE Publications 2023-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9947685/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231153601 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery: a case report
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title_fullStr Foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery: a case report
title_short Foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery: a case report
title_sort foot drop on the opposite side after spinal anesthesia for ankle fracture surgery: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947685/
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