Anaesthesia for phaeochromocytoma and sickle cell disease in pregnancy.
A 33-year-old woman (G(1)P(0)) presented to a maternity hospital at 36 weeks' gestation. She suffered from sickle cell disease with three acute crises in the previous five months of her pregnancy. She also had a phaeochromocytoma with inadequately controlled hypertension. This report describes the multi-disciplinary work-up and peri-operative management necessary to optimise her medical condition before caesarean section at 39 weeks' gestation and subsequent removal of a malignant phaeochromocytoma.
Browne
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I
Departments of Anaesthesia, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland. ingridbrowne@hotmail.com
Brady
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I
Hannon
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V
McKeating
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K
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications*; D000773:Anesthesia, Obstetrical / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011250:Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic