IRREVERSIBLE TETRAPLEGIA AFTER TRACHEAL RESECTION

Citation
J. Dominguez et al., IRREVERSIBLE TETRAPLEGIA AFTER TRACHEAL RESECTION, The Annals of thoracic surgery, 62(1), 1996, pp. 278-280
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
ISSN journal
00034975
Volume
62
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
278 - 280
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4975(1996)62:1<278:ITATR>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The case of a 21-year-old woman without previous cervical pathology in whom irreversible tetraplegia developed after operation for tracheal stenosis is reported, After tracheal resection the neck was kept in ex treme flexion and after extubation she was moved to a sitting position . The different causal agents that could produce the neurologic damage remain unclear, although we think that the combination of relative ar terial hypotension secondary to the sitting position and disturbed aut orregulation, caused by extreme neck flexion, could result in ischemic spinal cord injury.