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Acute coronary vasospasm during thoracic spine surgery
B S Krishnan1, Naveen Eipe, Grace Korula
1Department of Anaesthesia, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. b_s_krishnan@hotmail.com
Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
|June 27, 2003
Abstract:
Cardiac ischemia is a well-known and serious complication during surgery. The authors describe a case of acute coronary vasospasm in a young patient undergoing thoracic laminectomy with biopsy of intramedullary tumor. The possible role of the autonomic nervous system in the causation of acute coronary vasospasm is discussed, and this is highlighted as an unusual cause of myocardial ischemia during thoracic spine surgery.