Use of epidural anaesthesia for surgery in a patient with Kennedy's disease |
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| Authors: | Okamoto E Nitahara K Yasumoto M Higa K |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Anesthesiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Use of neuraxial block in a patient with motor neuron diseaseis controversial. We describe the anaesthetic management byepidural anaesthesia of a patient with Kennedys disease,a rare lower motor neuron disease characterized by progressiveweakness and wasting of limbs and bulbar muscles. The perioperativecourse was uneventful, and there was no exacerbation of neurologicsigns or symptoms. We suggest that a patient with Kennedysdisease may be successfully managed by epidural anaesthesiafor surgical internal urethrotomy. Br J Anaesth 2004; 92: 4323 |
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| Keywords: | anaesthetic techniques, epidural complications, genetic disease, X-linked complications, Kennedy’ s disease complications, motor neuron disease, lower |
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