Perioperative autonomic hyperreflexia in high spinal cord lesions: a case report |
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| Authors: | J. C. Ræ eder,M.D. S. E. Gisvold |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Anaesthesia, Regional Hospital of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway |
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| Abstract: | We report the case of a 20-year-old man with serious perioperative attacks of autonomic hyperreflexia starting during urological surgery 14 months after a complete C6-C7 spinal cord injury. The intraoperative attacks were controlled by deepening the level of anaesthesia, while the postoperative attacks were treated with emepronium bromide. A brief discussion of the pathophysiology and treatment is given. |
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| Keywords: | Anesthesia general spinal autonomic hyperreflexia emepronium bromide spinal cord injury |
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