title: Thoracic epidural anaesthesia and primary pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: Patients with primary pulmonary hypertension occasionally present for surgery. Anaesthesia requires continuous cardiovascular monitoring and maintenance of stable pulmonary and systemic haemodynamics. The management of a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension, undergoing open lung biopsy under a combination of general anaesthesia and thoracic epidural analgesia is reported and the problems of primary pulmonary hypertension are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Armstrong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013909:Thorax