We experienced anesthesia of a patient with pheochromocytoma on chronic hemodialysis who developed severe hypotension resistant to vasopressors after induction of general anesthesia. She was presented for spine surgery for destructive arthropathy of the cervical spine. Doxazosin up to 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe experienced perioperative management of a patient with Quincke's edema who underwent clipping of ruptured intracranial aneurysm. At the time of presentation, he complained of lip and tongue swelling. We administered dl-chlorpheniramine malate and tranexamic acid perioperatively to prevent further edema.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe experienced perioperative management of a woman with large thrombi in femoral veins caused by estrogen producing ovarian tumor. At presentation, serum estradiol level was extremely high. Time constraint due to rapid expansion of the tumor did not allow us a trial of preoperative anti-coagulation.
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