MYASTENİA GRAVİSLİ BİR HASTADA SPİNAL ANESTEZİ YAKLAŞIMIMIZ

• Main Authors: Onur Koyuncu, Selim Turhanoğlu, Çağla Akkurt, Kasım Tuzcu, İbrahim Yetim, Mustafa Uğur
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mustafa Kemal University 2015-03-01
• Series: Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Tıp Dergisi
• Subjects: Spinal anesthesia; myastenia gravis; inguinal hernia; Spinal anestezi; inguinal herni; -
• Online Access: http://dergipark.gov.tr/mkutfd/issue/19596/209368?publisher=mku

Myastenia Gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular transmission disorder. The main symptoms of the illness muscle weakness, progressive muscle tiredness, ptosis, disorders. In these patients group, the main problems are determination of appropiate anesthesia medicine doses and shortness of breath in the postoperative period. There were a few reports of spinal anesthesia prefered for the patients with myastenia gravis in the literature. In this article, we present a case of spinal anesthesia was applied for inguinal hernia operation