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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 37, 685-688, Copyright © 1990 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Alfentanil for urgent caesarean section in a patient with severe mitral stenosis and pulmonary hypertension

MA Batson, S Longmire and E Csontos
Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.

We present the case of a parturient with severe mitral stenosis and pulmonary hypertension who received general anaesthesia using alfentanil for urgent Caesarean section. Alfentanil promoted haemodynamic stability and allowed immediate postoperative extubation. Epidural morphine provided postoperative analgesia. This combination permitted early ambulation and prevention of thromboembolism. A disadvantage of this technique, neonatal respiratory depression, was promptly reversed with a single dose of naloxone. The anaesthetic management of mitral stenosis in pregnancy is discussed and the neonatal pharmacokinetics of maternally administered alfentanil are presented.


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