Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Oxidative Stress During Delivery with Epidural Analgesia.

Childbirth is a stressful event for mothers, and labor epidural analgesia (LEA) may reduce mental stress. Mental stressors include labor pain, fear, and anxiety, which induce oxidative stress. In this study, we focused on oxidative stress during delivery and conducted a cross-sectional analysis of maternal and fetal oxidative stress.

[Anesthetic management for cases of placenta accreta presented for cesarean section: a 7-year single-center experience].

Background: Anesthetic management of cesarean section for placenta accreta is very challenging. The aim of our retrospective study was to review past placenta accreta cases in our hospital to suggest a strategy for anesthetic management for placenta accreta.

Methods: Placenta accreta cases were identified in our obstetric anesthesia data base.

[Pain control by caudal epidural infusion in a pregnant woman with hemorrhoids carrying triplets].

A 30-year-old woman in her 25th week of gestation with triplets complained of severe pain due to a hemorrhoid. The patient felt it was difficult to continue childbearing. First we performed caudal epidural block with 0.

[Anesthetic management of a patient with xeroderma pigmentosum].

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare autosomal recessive disease, which is characterized by hypersensitivity of the skin to ultraviolet (UV)-radiation and progressive neurological complications. Patients with XP show a failure to properly repair UV-induced DNA lesions by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) mechanism. This results predominantly in a high frequency of UV-induced skin tumors at an early age.