Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Case Reports
. 2016 Jul-Sep;19(3):533-4.
doi: 10.4103/0971-9784.185555.

Redo cardiac valve surgery and severe kyphoscoliosis: Anesthetic challenges

M S Saravana Babu  1 , Shrinivas Gadhinglajkar  1 , Rupa Sreedhar  1 , Neelam Agarwal  1 , Deepak Mathew Gregory  1 , Vivek Pillai  2
Affiliations
Case Reports

Redo cardiac valve surgery and severe kyphoscoliosis: Anesthetic challenges

M S Saravana Babu et al. Ann Card Anaesth. 2016 Jul-Sep.
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Chest X-ray showing severe kyphoscoliosis with Cobb's angle of 75° and hypoplasia of the left lung. Cobb's angle is derived by drawing intersecting perpendicular lines from the superior surface of the superior end vertebra and from the inferior surface of the inferior end vertebra. The angle of deviation of these perpendicular lines from the straight line is the Cobb's angle
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Goodwin AT, Ooi A, Kitcat J, Nashef SA. Outcomes in emergency redo cardiac surgery: Cost, benefit and risk assessment. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2003;2:227–30. - PubMed
    1. Gambrall MA. Anesthetic implications for surgical correction of scoliosis. AANA J. 2007;75:277–85. - PubMed
    1. Koumbourlis AC. Review: Scoliosis and the respiratory system. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2006;7:152–60. - PubMed
    1. Crowe JM, Bradley CA. The effectiveness of incentive spirometry with physical therapy for high-risk patients after coronary artery bypass surgery. Phys Ther. 1997;77:260–8. - PubMed
    1. Eltzschig HK, Rosenberger P, Löffler M, Fox JA, Aranki SF, Shernan SK. Impact of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography on surgical decisions in 12,566 patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Ann Thorac Surg. 2008;85:845–52. - PubMed

Supplementary concepts