THE CHOICE OF ANESTHESIA IN SEGAWAS-SYNDROME

Segawa's syndrome is a rare hereditary progressive dystonia with diurn al fluctuation, which, in contrast to other types of chronic dystonia in children, responds dramatically to levodopa therapy. We present a c ase of a patient, suffering from Segawa's syndrome who underwent two c esarean sections, and we describe our experience in providing anesthes ia to that patient. The fist cesarean section was performed with gener al anesthesia, while the second was accomplished with epidural anesthe sia. On both occasions the anesthesia was uneventful. (C) 1998 by Else vier Science Inc.