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Spinal anaesthesia in a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome
S Sacrista1, D Kern, O Fourcade
1Service d'Anesthésie-Réanimation and Département, Médico-Chirurgical de Pédiatrie, Hôpital des Enfants, Toulouse, France. sacrista.s@chu-toulouse.fr
Paediatric Anaesthesia
|March 19, 2003
Abstract:
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a complex congenital heart disease, is the most common lethal cardiac defect in neonates. Its treatment includes cardiac transplantation and/or surgical palliation. Associated extracardiac congenital abnormalities are exceptional. We report the case of a neonate with HLHS and anorectal atresia who required urgent surgical management to relieve intestinal obstruction. The surgery was successfully performed under spinal anaesthesia.