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Spinal anaesthesia in a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Service d'Anesthésie-Réanimation and Département, Médico-Chirurgical de Pédiatrie, Hôpital des Enfants, Toulouse, France.
Pediatric Anesthesia (impact factor: 2.1). 04/2003; 13(3):253-6. pp.253-6
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a complex congenital heart disease, is the most common lethal cardiac defect in neonates. Its treatment includes cardiac transplantation and/or surgical palliation. Associated extracardiac congenital abnormalities are exceptional. We report the case of a neonate with HLHS and anorectal atresia who required urgent surgical management to relieve intestinal obstruction. The surgery was successfully performed under spinal anaesthesia.

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Keywords

anorectal atresia
 
Associated extracardiac congenital abnormalities
 
common lethal cardiac
 
heart syndrome
 
intestinal obstruction
 
surgical palliation
 
urgent surgical management
 

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