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Anaesthesia for caesarean section in a patient with spinal muscular atrophy
1Department of Anaesthesia, The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 132 Grattan Street, Carlton, Vic. 3053.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
|March 15, 2003
Abstract:
This report describes a 33-year-old primigravid woman with spinal muscular atrophy Type III (Kugelberg-Welander syndrome). Elective caesarean section was performed at 38 weeks gestation under spinal anaesthesia. The implications of spinal muscular atrophy for anaesthesia for caesarean section are described.