Anesth Pain Med.
2012 Jan;7(1):59-62.
Anesthetic management of a patient with CADASIL syndrome: A case report
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. leeji@catholic.ac.kr
Abstract
- Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare but the most common genetic cause of ischemic strokes. Very little is known about perioperative implications of this syndrome. We present a case of anesthesia for a patient with CADASIL, considering protection from further cerebral ischemia.