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Heparin induced thrombocytopenia causing acute paraplegia
M Leitinger, H Novak, M McCoy, S Weis, G Ladurner · Aktuelle Neurologie · 2009 · Heft 10
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A 67 year old lady without vascular risk factors underwent prothetic surgery of both knees by means of spinal anaesthesia. On the sixth postoperative day she fell on the floor and revealed a mild weakness of both legs, which worsened to paraplegia two days later. In the MRI of her lower medulla a hyperintense lesion with an uptake of contrast medium was found. The cerebrospinal fluid revealed an inflammatory csf syndrome. The thrombocyte count on admission was about sixty thousand per microlitre. The patient was treated at the intensive care unit and succombed on the fourteenth postoperative day due to an acute…
Schlagworte
Paraplegia
Heparin
Induced
Thrombocytopenia
Acute
Spinal
Anaesthesia
Postoperative
Revealed
Medulla
Embolism
Causing
Aktuelle Neurologie
