Dural ectasia: a likely cause of inadequate spinal anaesthesia in two parturients with Marfan's syndrome |
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| Authors: | Lacassie H J Millar S Leithe L G Muir H A Montaña R Poblete A Habib A S |
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| Affiliation: | 1 Department of Anaesthesiology and 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Marcoleta 367, Santiago 833-0024, Chile. 3 Department of Anaesthesiology and 4 Department of Neuroradiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. 5 Department of Anaesthesia, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 84 Castle Street, Glasgow G4 0SF, UK |
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| Abstract: | We report two cases of Caesarean section in patients with Marfan'ssyndrome where continuous subarachnoid anaesthesia failed toprovide an adequate surgical block. This was possibly becauseof dural ectasia, which was confirmed by a computed tomographyscan in both cases. |
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| Keywords: | anaesthesia, obstetric anaesthetic techniques, subarachnoid complications, dural ectasia complications, Marfan's syndrome surgery, Caesarean section |
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