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Epidural analgesia for labor and delivery in a patient with von Willebrand's disease
1Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
Regional Anesthesia
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
Patients with histories of bleeding disorders may still benefit from regional anesthetic techniques. The decision to perform the block should be individualized, based on coagulation tests. The authors describe a patient with von Willebrand's disease in whom pregnancy itself improved factor VIII activity, enabling performance of an epidural block for labor and delivery.