Open AccessSpinal anaesthesia for a caesarean section in a patient with paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia
Author(s) -
Ayça Taş Tuna,
Fatih Şahin,
Dilcan Kotan,
Alı Fuat Erdem,
Meltem Baykara,
Tuba Duzcan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.204255
Subject(s) - medicine , caesarean section , ataxia , lung cancer , anesthesia , general anaesthesia , pregnancy , cerebellar ataxia , cancer , surgery , pathology , genetics , psychiatry , biology
Paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is most frequently observed in gynaecological cancers, small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancer testis or malignant thymoma. In the literature, there is no data related to the effects of PCA during pregnancy or reports on the effects of anaesthesia in patients with PCA. We present management of a pregnant woman with PCA who was suddenly unable to walk with PCA and for whom effective spinal anaesthesia was performed for an elective caesarean section with no complications.