Transient cardiac asystole in transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: a case report.
Unlike other cardiac arrhythmia, asystole during neurosurgical procedures is not reported in the literature. We describe such a case during transsphenoidal pituitary surgery in a patient who was not having any history of associated cardiac problems. Its possible cause in relation to the perioperative sequence of events has been discussed.
Rath
Girija P
GP
Department of Neuroanaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Chaturvedi
Arvind
A
Chouhan
Rajendra S
RS
Prabhakar
Hemanshu
H
D000758:Anesthesia; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000601:surgery; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000601:surgery*; D013100:Sphenoid Bone; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed