• M Murakami, S Nomiyama, A Ozawa, H Matono, Y Tanabe, and S Watanabe.
• Department of Anaesthesiology, National Sanatorium, Okinawa Airakuen.
• Masui. 1993 Feb 1;42(2):263-70.

AbstractWe evaluated the preoperative and intraoperative general condition of 33 pediatric kidney recipients. Eighteen patients were anaesthetized with lumbar epidural anaesthesia. Ten patients were with nitrous oxide-oxygen-halothane, 5 cases were with NLA. Preoperatively many children had cardiovascular and metabolic complications. For example 39% of patients had history of hypertension. Sixty-seven percent of patients were found to have cardiomegaly (cardio-thoracic ratio > 50%) with chest X-ray film. Seven of 9 patients undergoing echocardiogram had abnormality of cardiac wall motion, valvular impairment, pericardial effusion. In forty-eight percent of patients, hyperlipidemia was found. During operation we could not maintain the cardiovascular stability following intratracheal intubation and manipulation of vena cava or abdominal aorta under NLA or nitrous oxide-oxygen-halothane anesthesia. Epidural analgesia inhibited the cardiovascular fluctuation following these surgical stresses. We concluded that epidural analgesia is the best anaesthesia for pediatric renal transplantation and phentolamine or PGE1 are useful to maintain cardiovascular stability and transplanted kidney function.

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