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Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for Cesarean section in a patient with peripartum dilated cardiomyopathy

R Shnaider¹, T Ezri, P Szmuk

¹Department of Anesthesiology University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia = Journal Canadien D'Anesthesie

|August 10, 2001

Purpose:

To report a case of peripartum dilated cardiomyopathy associated with morbid obesity and possible difficult airway presenting for elective Cesarean section, which was successfully managed with combined spinal-epidural anesthesia.

Clinical Features:

A morbidly obese parturient with a potentially difficult airway, suffering from idiopathic peripartum cardiomyopathy (ejection fraction 20%), was scheduled for an elective Cesarean section. A combined spinal epidural anesthesia was performed and 6 mg of bupivacaine were injected into the subarachnoid space. This was supplemented after 60 min with 25 mg of bupivacaine injected epidurally. The patient's hemodynamic status was monitored with direct intra-arterial blood pressure and central venous pressure measurements. The patient's perioperative course was uneventful.

Conclusion:

In patients suffering from peripartum cardiomyopathy, undergoing Cesarean section, combined spinal-epidural anesthesia may be an acceptable anesthetic alternative.

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