• BMC anesthesiology · Apr 2020

    Case Reports

    Anaesthetic management of a large paraganglioma resection in a woman with isolated L-looped transposition of the great arteries: a case report.

    • Ling Lan, Penghao Liu, Yuan Tian, Bo Zhu, Le Shen, and Yuguang Huang.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 100730, Beijing, P.R. China.
    • BMC Anesthesiol. 2020 Apr 6; 20 (1): 79.

    BackgroundReports of anaesthetic management of paraganglioma resection in patients with isolated L-transposition of the great arteries (L-TGA) are rare. We focus on the preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative care of a frail patient with "physiologically corrected" L-TGA for paraganglioma resection.Case PresentationWe performed general anaesthesia for a 46-year-old patient with "physiologically corrected" L-TGA undergoing open large retroperitoneal paraganglioma resection. Although the preoperative medical therapy had attained its goals, the patient went through three periods of severe episodic hypertension and tachycardia as tumour manipulation released catecholamines. Goal-directed fluid therapy based on pulse pressure variation (PPV) and point-of-care transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) imaging enabled anaesthesiologists to make rapid judgments and to regulate blood pressure in a timely manner, thereby reducing the risk of heart failure caused by massive rapid fluid bolus therapy. The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit because of intraoperative hemodynamic changes and significant blood loss. Despite transient myocardial injury (elevated troponin I), no lethal arrhythmia or complications occurred perioperatively, and the patient recovered well and was discharged 1 week later.ConclusionsGoal-directed fluid therapy combined with the adoption of TEE could effectively guide fluid administration, which is helpful for anaesthesia management during operation. We recommend the routine use of TEE in such cases.

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