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Epidural anesthesia in pregnant patients with low platelet counts
S H Rolbin1, D Abbott, E Musclow
1Department of Anesthesia, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
|June 1, 1988
Abstract:
A number of patients demonstrate thrombocytopenia in the peripartum period. One hundred four patients with unexplained transient periparturient thrombocytopenia were found over a nine-month period. Sixty-one of them received epidural anesthesia without neurologic sequelae. Epidural anesthesia is safe if the platelet count exceeds 100 x 10(9)/L in otherwise healthy women.