Death within 24 hours of anesthesia is not always an anesthetic death.
OBJECTIVE
We report an anesthetic death of a young lady after uneventful anesthetics.


METHODS
A 25-year-old female who had undergone emergency incision and drainage of an abscess in her right breast. Her condition, however, deteriorated few hours after anesthesia and died in less than 24 hours from causes unrelated to anesthesia. The computerized tomography (CT) scan showed a large meningioma in frontal lobe.


CONCLUSIONS
This case illustrates that the risks of anesthesia are increased significantly in patients with silent meningionmas.
Samarkandi
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Department of Anaesthesia, King Saud University, College of Medicine, Khaled University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ahsamark@ksu.edu.sa
D000038:Abscess / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D006801:Humans; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications