ABSTRACT
Congenital pulmonary vein stenosis (CPVS) is a rare fetal congenital heart disease with a prevalence of 1.7 per 100,000 children younger than two years of age. Because of the difficulty of maintaining the pulmonary blood flow, CPVS is associated with a 50% survival rate within five years of diagnosis. We describe a successful management of pulmonary blood flow for a 4-month-old-girl with CPVS, combined with atrial septal defect and ventricular septal defect, undergoing pulmonary vein obstruction release (PVOR). In this case, CPVS was the only cause for pulmonary hypertension because there was no significant pressure gradient between each pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and the paired pulmonary vein pressure, indicating the normal pulmonary vascular structure prior to pulmonary vein stenosis. As pulmonary blood flow was estimated to be high after PVOR, pulmonary artery banding was also performed. Management of pulmonary blood flow is the most important issue for anesthesia of this surgery, especially in postcardiopulmonary bypass period, when the pulmonary vasoconstriction is induced by endothelial dysfuncion.
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Anesthesia, General/methods , Constriction, Pathologic/surgery , Heart Defects, Congenital/complications , Pulmonary Artery/surgery , Pulmonary Veins/surgery , Angiography , Constriction, Pathologic/complications , Female , Humans , Infant , Pulmonary Circulation , Pulmonary Veins/pathology , Thoracic Surgical ProceduresABSTRACT
Oscillometric determination of blood pressure may be advantageous, as cuff inflation requires lower cuff pressure and shorter duration than deflation. In this observational study, we compared the blood pressure value, cuff pressure, and duration of cuff inflation between a prototype of inflationary non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) and conventional deflationary NIBP in adult patients during anesthesia. Three hundred and twenty-three pairs of measurements were obtained from 64 subjects. The bias and precision of systolic pressure and diastolic pressure were 2.9 ± 8.3 and 5.6 ± 6.1 mmHg, respectively. Inflationary NIBP could better determine NIBP with lower cuff pressure than deflationary NIBP (124 ± 22 vs. 160 ± 33 mmHg, p < 0.05). Inflationary NIBP could also determine NIBP more quickly (13.0 ± 2.3 vs. 32.7 ± 13.6 s, p < 0.05). These data suggest that inflationary NIBP may reduce cuff-related discomfort and complications, and has reasonable accuracy compared to deflationary NIBP in adult surgical patients.
