Multiple anesthetic challenges in a patient with Klippel-Feil syndrome undergoing cardiac surgery

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 502-505

  Farid, Ibrahim S ^b   Omar, Omar A ^b   Insler, Steven R ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cardiac surgery; Cleft palate; Congenital defects; Klippel Feil Syndrome; Recessive inheritance; Sprengel deformity echocardiography; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

EID: 0041856113     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-0770(03)00159-9     Document Type: Article

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