title: Acute pharyngolaryngeal oedema in a pre-eclamptic parturient with systemic lupus erythematosus and a recent renal transplant.
abstract: The case of a 30-year-old parous patient with multi-organ involvement due to systemic lupus erythematosus and severe hypertension at 33 weeks gestation is described. Despite uneventful general anaesthesia for a classical caesarean section she developed acute airway obstruction postoperatively which was attributed to pre-eclampsia induced laryngeal oedema.
authors.affiliation: Anaesthetic Department, Victoria Infirmary, Langside Road, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thorburn