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  • 标题:Paraplegia following cervical epidural catheterization using loss of resistance technique with air: a case report
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  • 作者:Chae, Yun Jeong ; Han, Kyung Ream ; Park, Hyung Bae
  • 期刊名称:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
  • 印刷版ISSN:2005-6419
  • 出版年度:2016
  • 卷号:69
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:66-70
  • DOI:10.4097/kjae.2016.69.1.66
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists,
  • 摘要:

    We report a case of paraplegia without neurologic deficit of upper extremities following cervical epidural catheterization using air during the loss of resistance technique. A 41-year-old woman diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome had upper and lower extremity pain. A thoracic epidural lead was inserted for a trial spinal cord stimulation for treating lower extremity pain and cervical epidural catheterization was performed for treating upper extremity pain. Rapidly progressive paraplegia developed six hours after cervical epidural catheterization. Spine CT revealed air entrapment in multiple thoracic intervertebral foraminal spaces and surrounding epidural space without obvious spinal cord compression before the decompressive operation, which disappeared one day after the decompressive operation. Her paraplegia symptoms were normalized immediately after the operation. The presumed cause of paraplegia was transient interruption of blood supply to the spinal cord through the segmental radiculomedullary arteries feeding the spinal cord at the thoracic level of the intervertebral foramen caused by the air.

  • 关键词:Air; cervical; complication; Paraplegia; Spinal cord ischemia
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