Combination of asleep and awake craniotomy as a novel strategy for resection in patients with butterfly glioblastoma: Two case reports.

Background: Several studies have reported that gross total resection contributes to improved prognosis in patients with butterfly glioblastoma (bGBM). However, it sometimes damages the corpus callosum and cingulate gyrus, leading to severe neurological complications.

Case Description: We report two cases of bGBM that was safely and maximally resected using brief and exact awake mapping after general anesthesia.

[Perioperative Management of Emergency Operation for a Patient with Carcinoid Syndrome].

We report a case of carcinoid syndrome requiring an emergency operation for an upper gastrointestinal perforation. A 46-year-old man had undergone left lower lobectomy for a lung carcinoid tumor seven years previously, and liver metastasis was found five years previously. He developed cutaneous flushing and watery diarrhea, and was diagnosed with carcinoid syndrome one year previously.

[Two cases of general anesthesia after recovery from ARDS].

There are few reports on general anesthesia in survivors of ARDS. Patients after recovery from ARDS are at risk for compromised pulmonary function, neuromuscular weakness and cognitive dysfunction. We report 2 cases of general anesthesia in survivors of ARDS.

[General anesthesia for lung resection in 7 patients with forced expiratory volume in 1 second of less than 1l].

Preoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second less than 1 l is a risk factor for anesthesia. We report perioperative management and prognosis of 7 patients with restricted lung function who underwent lung resection under general anesthesia. We assessed the patients preoperatively from the point of view of heart-lung functions such as predicted postoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second greater than 0.

[Two cases of airway stent placement to treat tracheal and bronchial fistula using general anesthesia under spontaneous respiration].

Anesthesia for the tracheobronchial stent placement involves the risk of airway narrowing and obstruction. Controlled ventilation with relatively high airway pressure is usually used to maintain oxygenation and ventilation during anesthesia. However, controlled ventilation does not always provide tidal volume and oxygenation due to gas leakage from tracheobronchial fistula.

[Case of general anesthesia for subtotal thyroidectomy in a pregnant woman with 27th week gestation].

We report a case of general anesthesia for subtotal thyroidectomy in a pregnant woman with 27th week gestation. A 33-year-old pregnant woman was diagnosed with thyroid carcinoma. We planned subtotal thyroidectomy at 27 weeks of gestation.