Anaesthetic Management of a Patient with Dilated Cardiomyopathy for Fracture Femur Surgery-A Case Report | Zendy

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Anaesthetic Management of a Patient with Dilated Cardiomyopathy for Fracture Femur Surgery-A Case Report

Author(s) -

Koramutla Pradeep Kumar,

G Jagadesh

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of clinical and diagnostic research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2249-782X

pISSN - 0973-709X

DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/7102.4154

Subject(s) - dilated cardiomyopathy , medicine , cardiomyopathy , femur , surgery , anesthesia , cardiology , heart failure

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is defined as impairment of the ventricular function of the myocardium. The management of a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy, who undergoes a non-cardiac surgery, is always a challenge for an anaesthesiologist, as this situation is associated with a high mortality rate. We are reporting the successful anaesthetic management of a patient with severe dilated cardiomyopathy for fractured femur surgical repair under graded epidural anaesthesia.

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