Cesarean section and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: choice of anesthesia.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a rare genetically transmitted connective tissue disorder, non-specific to pregnancy. Because of multi-organ involvement and varied presentations of this disease, no uniform anesthetic recommendations can be made. We report a case of a parturient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome who presented in active labor with spontaneous rupture of membranes and footling breech presentation. She received single dose spinal anesthesia for an uneventful emergency cesarean section.
Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, California, USA. kkuczkowski@ucsd.edu
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