Why the study?
Does combined spinal and epidural anesthesia provide safe and effective analgesia in a parturient with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis?
Population
19-year-old primigravida with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS) at 37 weeks gestation (n=1)
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
5 days postpartum
Authors
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Anecdotal support for combined spinal-epidural in hypertrophic subaortic stenosis; prospective trials needed before adoption.
Does combined spinal and epidural anesthesia provide safe and effective analgesia in a parturient with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis?
Combined spinal and epidural anesthesia with intrathecal fentanyl and epidural bupivacaine-fentanyl infusion can provide safe and effective analgesia for labor in patients with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis.
Ho et al. (1997) studied this question.
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