Case report
Following cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) surgery, severe brain edema and hemorrhage may be caused by postoperative normal perfusion pressure breakthrough (NPPB). Sedation is necessary for this popul...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:17
Published on: 24 April 2017
Case report
Acute bioprosthetic valve thrombosis can occur after surgery and sometimes cause hemodynamic instability and cardiogenic shock. Risk factors for bioprosthetic valve thrombosis are hypercoagulability, atrial fi...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:15
Published on: 17 April 2017
Case report
Easier to perform than the conventional procedure, mini-tracheostomy (MT) is widely used in the operating room or intensive care unit to remove sputum or other obstructions of the upper airway. This option, ho...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:16
Published on: 17 April 2017
Case report
Coronary ostial stenosis is a life-threatening complication of aortic valve replacement (AVR). Clinical symptoms usually appear within the first 6 months after AVR (Funada and Mizuno et al., Circ J 70:1312–7, ...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:14
Published on: 11 April 2017
Clinical research letter
Regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) monitoring by near-infrared spectroscopy provides valuable information regarding cerebral oxygen delivery, and it has been increasingly used in cardiovascular surgery. A...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:13
Published on: 8 April 2017
Case report
A 13-month-old infant weighing 8.3 kg with a height of 72.3 cm visited our hospital for surgical resection of facial vascular malformation detected at birth. Because we anticipated the patient would have diffi...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:12
Published on: 4 April 2017
Case report
Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) after spinal anesthesia is a rare complication. We experienced a patient who developed CSDH after postdural puncture headache (PDPH) following combined spinal and epidural anes...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:11
Published on: 9 March 2017
Case report
Subglottic stenosis can lead to life-threatening difficult tracheal intubation during general anesthesia. We report a case of difficult tracheal intubation in an 11-month-old female who had unrecognized subglo...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:10
Published on: 15 February 2017
Case report
A scalp block or wound infiltration of local anesthetic is thought to effectively control post-craniotomy pain. However, it can result in local anesthetic toxicity (LAST), which is difficult to distinguish fro...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:9
Published on: 10 February 2017
Case Report
Glycosylation is one of the major posttranslational modifications of proteins and it is essential for proteins to obtain normal biological functions. Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDGs) are very rare ...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:8
Published on: 10 February 2017
Case report
We describe a patient with biventricular assist devices who had systemic inflammation because of cholecystitis that required open cholecystectomy, and we discuss the anesthetics and monitors that should be use...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:7
Published on: 7 February 2017
Case report
A pulse oximeter is one of the most important monitors to save patients undergoing anesthesia and monitored sedation. The authors report a case of orthopedic surgery, in which interference of pulse oximetry oc...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:6
Published on: 13 January 2017
Clinical research letter
Patient satisfaction with postoperative pain management is an important quality indicator in patient health care, but its determinants are poorly understood. Here, we examined the contribution of the discrepan...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:5
Published on: 10 January 2017
Case report
Epidural blood patch (EBP) is a recognized treatment for spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak (SCFL) and is typically administered by the interlaminar approach. Here, we report a case of a patient in whom SCFL...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:2
Published on: 5 January 2017
Case report
Paravertebral catheters are generally inserted and removed without complications. However, catheter breakage occurs rarely. This is the first report describing breakage of a thoracic paravertebral catheter and...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:4
Published on: 5 January 2017
Case report
A 36-year-old parturient with a suspicion of placenta accreta under tocolytic therapy with ritodrine infusion underwent emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia with propofol, ketamine, and remifent...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:3
Published on: 5 January 2017
Case report
Although data from several studies support the use of arginine vasopressin (AVP) for the treatment of hypotension concomitant with pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the cardiac surgery setting, to our knowledge, ...
JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:1
Published on: 4 January 2017
Case report
In 1976, Gonzales-Crussi et al. (Am. J. Dis. Child. 130:1015–18, 1976) introduced the first case of bridging bronchus as a rare bronchial branching anomaly; since then, only 14 worldwide cases was described. W...
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:44
Published on: 7 December 2016
Case report
Post-herpetic itch (PHI) is a neuropathic itch syndrome following herpes zoster. It has been reported that PHI is occasionally sufficiently severe to compromise patients’ quality of life and frequently refract...
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:43
Published on: 5 December 2016
Case report
Tracheal stent is a good way to maintain a patent airway in case of stenosis. Although anesthesia techniques for the placement of a stent in the trachea of patients with tracheal stenosis have been reported, t...
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:42
Published on: 3 December 2016
Case report
Giant cell myocarditis, characterized by infiltration of multinucleated giant cells in the myocardium, is a rare type of myocarditis. It often progresses rapidly into fulminant heart failure and indicates a po...
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:41
Published on: 29 November 2016
Clinical research letter
Surgery cancellation results in unavailability of the operating room and loss time. We identified the frequency of and reasons for operation cancellations after patients entered the operating room and assessed...
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:40
Published on: 25 November 2016
Clinical research letter
It has been reported that prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stay after cardiac surgery is associated with poor patient outcome. In addition, prolonged stay can block the efficient use of ICU beds with an inc...
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:39
Published on: 24 November 2016
Case report
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is characterized by reversible neurological symptoms with leukoencephalopathy detectable by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:38
Published on: 21 November 2016
Case report
Schwartz–Jampel syndrome (SJS) is a rare disorder characterized by micrognathia, kyphoscoliosis, and myotonia. The greatest challenge in the anesthetic management of patients with SJS is performing tracheal in...
JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:36
Published on: 14 November 2016
