Open AccessAnaesthetic management of closed mitral valvotomy for severe mitral stenosis with traumatic kyphoscoliosis
Author(s) -
A M Jagadeesh,
N Manjunath,
Venugopal Ram Rao,
Sunitha A Sathyakumari
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.4103/0019-5049.60502
Subject(s) - medicine , kyphoscoliosis , stenosis , percutaneous , surgery , cardiology , mitral incompetence , scoliosis
A 42-year-old male patient with rheumatic mitral stenosis was posted for percutaneous transluminal mitral commissurotomy. He had associated traumatic kyphoscoliosis and osteoarthritis of hip and knee joints, causing severe permanent flexion of these joints. This position caused technical difficulty in approach to the femoral vessels. So he was rescheduled for closed mitral valvotomy. This also posed similar problems, but was successfully managed.