TY - JOUR
T1 - Anaesthetic management in Wilson’s disease with severe neuropsychiatric manifestations
AU - Nanjangud, Pawan Ramesh
AU - Prasad, Sethulakshmi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - A 15 year-old girl presented with acute psychosis, seizures and right shoulder dislocation with an overlying abscess. The symptomatology was diagnosed to be due to Wilson’s disease. The anaesthetic management and postoperative analgesia was a challenging task in presence of hepatic and acute neurological dysfunction as well as difficulty in pain assessment. There are only a few reported cases of anaesthetic management in patients with Wilson’s disease with severe neuropsychiatric symptoms. This case portrays the safe use of both general and regional anaesthesia in such a patient.
AB - A 15 year-old girl presented with acute psychosis, seizures and right shoulder dislocation with an overlying abscess. The symptomatology was diagnosed to be due to Wilson’s disease. The anaesthetic management and postoperative analgesia was a challenging task in presence of hepatic and acute neurological dysfunction as well as difficulty in pain assessment. There are only a few reported cases of anaesthetic management in patients with Wilson’s disease with severe neuropsychiatric symptoms. This case portrays the safe use of both general and regional anaesthesia in such a patient.
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U2 - 10.4038/slja.v25i2.8226
DO - 10.4038/slja.v25i2.8226
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021938718
SN - 1391-8834
VL - 25
SP - 110
EP - 112
JO - Sri Lankan Journal of Anaesthesiology
JF - Sri Lankan Journal of Anaesthesiology
IS - 2
ER -