Spinal anaesthesia in a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a complex congenital heart disease, is the most common lethal cardiac defect in neonates. Its treatment includes cardiac transplantation and/or surgical palliation. Associated extracardiac congenital abnormalities are exceptional. We report the case of a neonate with HLHS and anorectal atresia who required urgent surgical management to relieve intestinal obstruction. The surgery was successfully performed under spinal anaesthesia.
Sacrista
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Service d'Anesthésie-Réanimation and Département, Médico-Chirurgical de Pédiatrie, Hôpital des Enfants, Toulouse, France. sacrista.s@chu-toulouse.fr
Kern
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D
Fourcade
O
O
Izard
P
P
Galinier
P
P
Samii
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K
Cathala
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B
D000775:Anesthesia, Spinal; D001006:Anus, Imperforate / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D018636:Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male