Arnold-Chiari malformation and pregnancy.

abstract：:The interaction between mivacurium and magnesium sulphate was investigated in a group of parturients undergoing caesarean section under general anaesthesia. Thirty parturients were studied; 10 normotensive controls (group NT), 10 hypertensive controls (group HT) and 10 hypertensives who received magnesium sulphate (gr...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Hodgson RE,Rout CC,Rocke DA,Louw NJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two cases of neurovascular disease in pregnancy in which transcranial Doppler was used to assess the status of the cerebral circulation during cesarean section under regional anesthesia. One woman had been found to have moyamoya disease, following a series of transient ischemic attacks during her first preg...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Smiley RM,Ridley DM,Hartmann A,Ciliberto CF,Baxi L

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The report of the Expert Maternity Group 'Changing Childbirth' (The Cumberlege Report) advocates a greater role for midwives in the care of the low risk pregnant woman, and has promoted much discussion about the future development of maternity services in the UK. At Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust the 'Home from H...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Pickett JA,Oppenheimer CA,May AE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind placebo-controlled trial we compared perioperative pain relief using different intrathecal opioid regimens given with bupivacaine during spinal anaesthesia for elective caesarean section. One hundred and sixteen patients undergoing elective caesarean section were divided into four groups (A, B, C, D)...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Sibilla C,Albertazz P,Zatelli R,Martinello R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and regurgitation were investigated with an oesophageal pH electrode, inserted after the induction of general anaesthesia with methohexitone, in 100 patients undergoing termination of pregnancy, 50 in the first trimester and 50 in the second. GOR occurred in 17 patients, 8 in the first ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Vanner RG

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of unexpected difficult intubation and ventilation during induction of general anaesthesia for caesarean section. This case was particularly challenging as the parturient suffered with particularly severe cord tethering following surgery for spina bifida as a child. The observed change in anticipate...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Anderson KJ,Quinlan MJ,Popat M,Russell R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis affects 1 in 1600-2500 live births and is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. It primarily involves the respiratory, gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts, with impaired clearance of, and obstruction by, increasingly viscous secretions. Severe respiratory disease, diabetes and gastro-oesopha...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Deighan M,Ash S,McMorrow R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stiff person syndrome is a rare neurologic disorder with an estimated incidence of 1:1000000. The underlying pathophysiology is truncal and proximal limb muscle stiffness resulting from continuous co-contracture of agonist and antagonist muscle groups concomitant with superimposed episodic muscle spasms. Loss of gamma...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Boettcher BT,Muravyea M,Kuo C,Drexler C,Pagel PS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the Royal Women's Hospital, Queensland, between 1993 and 1997 there were 56 vaginal and 22 caesarean deliveries involving 68 women with heart disease. Over half of those women required anaesthetic input, in particular, the women who had the most serious cardiac compromise. There were two maternal deaths, four unboo...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Boyle RK

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 30-year-old parturient diagnosed in the first trimester of her first pregnancy as having paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria. Pancytopenia necessitated regular transfusion of blood products. The risks of infection, haemorrhage and thrombosis, in the presence of severe thrombocytopenia, mild n...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Paech MJ,Pavy TJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard textbooks advocate epidural rather than spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section in severe preeclampsia. The basis for this recommendation is the theoretical risk of severe hypotension but no published scientific studies have been identified to support this assertion. We therefore designed a prospective study...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Sharwood-Smith G,Clark V,Watson E

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the management of a morbidly obese parturient suffering from narcolepsy with cataplexy who presented for caesarean section. Her symptoms were controlled by modafinil and fluoxetine. We administered epidural anaesthesia successfully; surgery was uneventful and recovery was uncomplicated. We discuss some of th...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Soltanifar S,Russell R

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to describe the current obstetric anaesthetic practices in Austria by performing a comprehensive questionnaire survey. METHODS:A questionnaire was sent via email to key anaesthesiologists from obstetric anaesthesia departments of 81 hospitals registered at the Austrian Ministry of ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Oji-Zurmeyer J,Ortner CM,Klein KU,Gries M,Kühn C,Schroffenegger T,Putz G,Jochberger S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP) is a rare but probably under-diagnosed disorder of peripheral nerves in which individuals suffer from repeated motor and sensory neuropathies (pressure palsies) following brief nerve compression or mild trauma. A seemingly trivial insult such as sitting or ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Lepski GR,Alderson JD

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella (chicken pox) infection is associated with a significant risk of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. The choice of anesthetic technique, either neuraxial or general anesthesia, in such patients remains controversial. Anesthetic management depends not only on the extent of disease involvement and asso...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Janardhan AL,Gupta N,Prakash S,Gogna RL

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets) syndrome is an obstetric complication with heterogeneous presentation, multisystem involvement and variable prognosis, but which usually resolves after delivery. We report a case of HELLP syndrome with subcapsular hematoma of the liver causing extrapericardia...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Kinthala S,Fakoory M,Greaves T,Kandamaran L,Thomas H,Moe S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morquio syndrome, a congenital mucopolysaccharidosis, presents several challenges for the provision of effective labor analgesia. We report the case of a woman admitted for induction of labor who received an early epidural and subsequently required cesarean delivery. Optimal bilateral labor analgesia was not achieved ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Delgado C,Kent C,Sedensky M,Ciliberto C,Landau R

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opioid crisis has reached an unprecedented magnitude in the United States and worldwide, and data on opioid use and misuse in the obstetric population are extremely concerning. Despite an abundant number of studies evaluating strategies to prevent neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome in babies born to mothers who a...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Landau R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The combined spinal-epidural technique for labor analgesia has several advantages over the traditional epidural technique, including faster onset, greater maternal satisfaction, and decreased need for physician boluses. Proponents of the epidural technique criticize the combined spinal-epidural technique, ar...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Groden J,Gonzalez-Fiol A,Aaronson J,Sachs A,Smiley R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases are described in which epidural analgesia was performed during labour using an infusion of bupivacaine 0.125-0.25%. When, in all 3 cases, caesarean section was required for failure to progress, hyperbaric bupivacaine was given in doses of 10 mg, 12.5 mg and 15 mg respectively. Within 2-4 min all 3 patients...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Gupta A,Enlund G,Bengtsson M,Sjöberg F

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A parturient who was 35 weeks' pregnant by her husband who was known to be susceptible to malignant hyperthermia, required anaesthesia for caesarean section for bleeding placenta praevia. The patient was considered to be haemodynamically stable and the procedure was carried out uneventfully under subarachnoid block. A...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Nanson JK,Sheikh A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work suggests that preoperative skin infiltration with local anesthetic may lead to reduced postoperative pain. We have studied this in a randomised, prospective, double-blind trial of 40 women having cesarean section under spinal anesthesia. After establishment of the spinal block, the incision line was infilt...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Pavy T,Gambling D,Kliffer P,Munro A,Merrick PM,Douglas J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Velocardiofacial or 22q11 deletion syndrome is a genetic condition caused by deletion 22q11, the deletion of a small segment of the long arm of chromosome 22. To our knowledge this is the first case report of a woman with Velocardiofacial syndrome presenting in late pregnancy for caesarean delivery. She had undergone ...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Cohen V,Powell E,Lake C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiences of 890 parturients were studied across Finland during one week to determine how they experienced labour pain and how effective they regarded the means to alleviate it. The majority of women (72%) had been afraid of labour and 88% had intended to request some pharmacological pain relief. 84% of primipar...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Kangas-Saarela T,Kangas-Kärki K

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In type III hereditary angioedema (HAE type III), the phenotype is the same as type I and type II disease, but the level and function of C1-esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) is normal. Hereditary angioedema type III has been described as an oestrogen-sensitive form because it can be triggered or aggravated by exposure to hi...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Feray S,Fain O,Kayem G,Sabourdin N,Constant I,Rigouzzo A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of intravenous dantrolene in a parturient susceptible to malignant hyperthermia has been associated with post partum uterine atony. We examined the effect of dantrolene sodium for injection (Dantrium Intravenous) on spontaneous contractility of uterine smooth muscle from women in term pregnancy in a...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Shin YK,Kim YD,Collea JV,Belcher MD

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past two decades has seen a growing understanding that health care leads to harm in a large number of patients. With this insight has come an understanding that clinicians who care for patients who are harmed experience an understandable and predictable emotional response. After an adverse event, medical care give...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Pratt SD,Jachna BR

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adequate analgesia following caesarean section decreases morbidity, hastens ambulation, improves patient outcome and facilitates care of the newborn. Intrathecal magnesium, an NMDA antagonist, has been shown to prolong analgesia without significant side effects in healthy parturients. We therefore studied th...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Malleeswaran S,Panda N,Mathew P,Bagga R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited information exists on obstetric anesthesia experience and training within residency training programs in the United States. METHODS:A survey was sent to every academic anesthesiology training program in the United States (n=120), with follow-up reminders to non-responders. The survey included 14 que...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Panni MK,Camann WR,Tsen LC

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are limited data about spinal dosing for cesarean delivery in preterm parturients. We investigated the hypothesis that preterm gestation is associated with an increased incidence of inadequate spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery compared with term gestation. METHODS:We searched our perioperative d...

journal_title：International journal of obstetric anesthesia

authors： Adesope OA,Einhorn LM,Olufolabi AJ,Cooter M,Habib AS

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00