Postoperative laryngeal edema presumably due to hypoalbuminemia causing acute airway obstruction after extubation in a patient after nephrectomy

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 906-909

  Nakamura, Koji ^a   Nishikawa, Koichi ^a   Takizawa, Daisuke ^a   Koizuka, Shiro ^a   Hiraoka, Haruhiko ^a   Saito, Shigeru ^a   Goto, Fumio ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Complications; Laryngeal edema; Tracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALBUMIN; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FACE MASK; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LARYNX EDEMA; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OXYGEN SATURATION; RESUSCITATION; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE EDEMA; STRIDOR; TRACHEA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VOCAL CORD;

ACUTE DISEASE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL EDEMA; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 4143127644     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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