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1Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Xinshi District, Xinjiang Province, China.
We report a case of a healthy 29-year-old parturient with a normal pre-operative platelet count who received combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for cesarean section, and who suffered the sudden intra-operative onset of severe thrombocytopenia (platelet count 3 × 109/L). This event was likely due to cefoxitin administered for the prophylaxis of surgical infection.
We report a case of a healthy 29-year-old parturient with a normal pre-operative platelet count who received combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for cesarean section, and who suffered the sudden intra-operative onset of severe thrombocytopenia (platelet count 3 × 109/L). This event was likely due to cefoxitin administered for the prophylaxis of surgical infection.
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