[Anesthetic management of a patient with spinal muscular atrophy type III]

Masui. 2008 Mar;57(3):358-9.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We report a 38-year-old man with Kugelberg-Welander disease who underwent triple arthrodesis for talipes equinovarus under combined spinal-epidural anesthesia supplemented with continuous intravenous infusion of propofol. There was no ventilatory disturbance, muscle weakness, or neurologic untoward event during perioperative period.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anesthesia, Epidural*
  • Anesthesia, Intravenous
  • Anesthesia, Spinal*
  • Anesthetics, Intravenous
  • Arthrodesis
  • Clubfoot / complications
  • Clubfoot / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Perioperative Care
  • Propofol
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood / complications
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood / surgery*

Substances

  • Anesthetics, Intravenous
  • Propofol