Zeitschrift für klinische Fallberichte

Continuous Spinal Anesthesia: An Anaesthetic Technique for Caesarean Section in Patients with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries

Abstract

Masad Ilyass, Meskine Amine, Bensghir Mustapha, Baite Abdelouahed, El Ghadbane Abdeddaime Hatim, Elwali Abderrahmane and Drissi Mohamed

Population of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) has increased over the years; double discordance is an anatomically complex condition that accounts for 0.5 to 1% of congenital heart disease. We report the case of a 27-year-old patient, primigravida, presenting for elective caesarean section for intrauterine growth retardation, whose pre-anaesthetic evaluation revealed a corrected great vessel transposition. We review the continuous spinal anesthesia during cesarean section in a pregnant patient with incidental discovery of congenital heart disease.