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Repeated spinal anesthesia in a tetraparetic patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Journal article

Repeated spinal anesthesia in a tetraparetic patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome.

  • Wipfli M Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: mariuswipfli@yahoo.com.
  • Arnold M Department of Neurology, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland.
  • Luginbühl M Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland.
  • 2013-08-23
Published in:
  • Journal of clinical anesthesia. - 2013
Anesthesia, spinal
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Tetraparesis
Aged
Anesthesia, Spinal
Anesthetics, Local
Bupivacaine
Fentanyl
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Humans
Lithotripsy
Male
Quadriplegia
Transurethral Resection of Prostate
Urinary Bladder Calculi
Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic
Vital Capacity
English A 78 year old man with tetraparesis, reduced forced vital capacity, and neurogenic bladder dysfunction due to Guillain-Barré syndrome was admitted for elective transurethral prostate resection and percutaneous lithotripsy of a bladder stone. On the sixth postoperative day, he was readmitted for emergency evacuation of a clot in the bladder. Both operations were performed with spinal anesthesia (hyperbaric bupivacaine + fentanyl) without neurologic sequelae.
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  • English
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