International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 57-60 , January 2008

Anesthetic management of labor in a patient with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

  • M. Cordone

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
    • ,
  • A. Wolfson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Alexander Wolfson, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Carnegie 280C, Baltimore, MD 21287.
    • ,
  • N. Wolfson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York
    • ,
  • D. Penning

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami, USA

,Accepted 10 April 2007.

References 

  1. Warnes CA. Congenital heart disease for the adult cardiologist: transposition of the great arteries. Circ J. 2006;114:2699–2709
  2. Schabel J, Jasiewicz R. Anesthetic management of a pregnant patient with congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries for labor and vaginal delivery. J Clin Anesth. 2001;13:517–520
  3. Angelini P, Lopez P. Ventriculoarterial discordance revisited: angiographic presentation and discussion of a typical case. Tex Heart Inst J. 1988;15:174–182
  4. Roffi M, Marchi S. Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries in an 80 year old woman. Heart. 1998;79:622–623
  5. Therrien J, Barnes I, Somerville J. Outcome of Pregnancy in patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries. Am J Cardiol. 1999;84:820–824
  6. Santos A, O’Gorman D, Finster M. Obstetric Anesthesia. In:  Barash P,  Cullen B,  Stoelting R editor. Clinical Anesthesia. 4th ed.. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2001;p. 1141–1170

 This work was presented as a poster presentation for the 39th Annual SOAP meeting, May 16-19th 2007, Fairmont Banff Springs, Canada.

PII: S0959-289X(07)00095-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2007.04.002

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 57-60 , January 2008

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution