A case of delayed emergence from anesthesia caused by postoperative brain edema associated with unexpected cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is rare but displays various and often dramatic clinical symptoms. Few cases of CVST have been reported in the field of anesthesiology. We encountered an unexpected case of CVST that presented with delayed emergence from anesthesia after resection of a brain tumor.

[Anesthetic management of a patient with Rett syndrome associated with trismus and apnea attacks].

Rett syndrome (RTT) is a congenital neurological disorder associated with mutations in the gene encoding MECP2 on the X chromosome. An 18-year-old woman (150 cm in height and 29 kg in weight) had been diagnosed with RTT and showed myotonic trismus, frequent attacks of apnea, mental retardation, spastic paraplegia, scoliosis, and microcephalus with micrognathia. She was scheduled to undergo laparoscopic fundoplication and gastrostomy under general anesthesia.