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.
Kuczkowski
K M
KM
Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, California, USA. kkuczkowski@ucsd.edu
Benumof
J L
JL