• BMC anesthesiology · Oct 2018

    Case Reports

    Case report: life-threatening coronary artery spasm under transversus abdominis plane block in combination with general anesthesia.

    • Wenping Peng, Shun Huang, Shuzhen Zhou, Ning Yang, and Mingzhang Zuo.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, China, No.1 DaHua Road, DongDan, Beijing, 100730, China. wenping1031@163.com.
    • BMC Anesthesiol. 2018 Oct 20; 18 (1): 148.

    BackgroundMany cases of coronary artery spasm (CAS) during general plus epidural anesthesia have been reported. But transversus abdominis plane(TAP) block in combination with general anesthesia has not been reported to be a cause of CAS, let alone a life-threatening CAS.Case PresentationIn this case report, we present a case of a patient with CAS accompanied by ventricular fibrillation under general anesthesia with TAP block.ConclusionCoronary artery spasm, even life-threatening CAS, may occur during TAP block in combination with general anesthesia.

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