Anaesthesia for caesarean section in a patient with acute fatty liver of pregnancy
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1Department of Anesthesiology, American River Hospital, Carmichael, CA.
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia = Journal Canadien D'Anesthesie
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 23-yr-old woman presented in labour and hepatic failure. The clinical diagnosis was acute fatty liver of pregnancy. A Caesarean section was performed under epidural anaesthesia, after correction of a coagulopathy. Epidural anaesthesia was chosen because of the potential deleterious effects of general anaesthesia on liver blood flow and function.