Related Experiment Videos
Pulmonary edema: a complication of local injection of vasopressin at laparoscopy
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Fertility and Sterility
|September 1, 1996
Objective:
To report a case of pulmonary edema after local injection of vasopressin at laparoscopy.
Setting:
University teaching hospital.
Patient:
A 24-year-old woman who underwent a laparoscopic myomectomy.
Intervention:
Injection of vasopressin (10 mL of 0.5 U/mL) into the uterine wall overlying the myoma.
Results:
Bradycardia, atrioventricular block, and pulmonary edema.
Conclusions:
The use of vasopressin can be associated with severe cardiopulmonary complications.