Open AccessAnesthetic management of a pregnant patient with a pure red cell aplasia
Author(s) -
CS Sanikop,
Prerna Bansal
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the scientific society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7127
pISSN - 0974-5009
DOI - 10.4103/0974-5009.120049
Subject(s) - medicine , pure red cell aplasia , perioperative , aplasia , red cell , anesthetic , anesthesia , surgery , bone marrow
Pure red cell disorder is an uncommon disorder in which maturation arrest occurs in the maturation of erythrocytes. Erythroblats are virtually absent in the bone marrow. Surgery poses a very high-risk for these patients because of the several complications that can occur in the perioperative period. In this case report, we report a pregnant patient with a pure red cell aplasia who was optimized pre-operatively and underwent cesarean section under sub-arachnoid block