Acute paraplegia after general anesthesia.
Acute paraplegia is a rare but catastrophic complication of surgeries performed on aorta and corrective operations of vertebral column. Trauma to spinal cord after spinal anesthesia and ischemia of spinal cord also may lead to acute paraplegia. Acute paraplegia as a complication of general anesthesia in surgeries performed on sites other than aorta and vertebral column is very rare. Here we present a 56 year old woman with acute paraplegia due to spinal cord infarction after laparoscopic cholecystectomy under general anesthesia probably caused by atherosclerosis of feeding spinal arteries and ischemia of spinal cord after reduction of blood flow possibly due to hypotension during general anesthesia.
Mostafa Khomeini Hospital, School of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
Siamak
S
Afshinmajd
Alireza
A
Khalaj
Younes
Y
Roohani
Mohammadebrahim
M
Yarmohammadi
Shadi
S
Salehpour
Alireza
A
Saeedi
Gholam Hossein
GH
Ghaedi
Mehran Heydari
MH
Seradj
D000208:Acute Disease; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis