PMID: 9549746Apr 29, 1998Paper

Anaesthetic management of a prematurely born infant with Cantrell's pentalogy

Paediatric Anaesthesia
P LaloyauxM Van Dyck

Abstract

Cantrell's pentalogy (CP) is a rare congenital syndrome combining a defect of the supraumbilical abdominal wall, the agenesis of the lower part of the sternum and of the anterior portion of the diaphragm, the absence of the diaphragmatic part of the pericardium, and a cardiac malformation. It was first described by Cantrell in 1958 (1,2). We report the case of a prematurely born infant with CP and Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome who required surgery first for bilateral inguinal hernia repair and later for Blalock-Taussig shunt. During these two procedures, our anaesthetic plan was to preserve the fragile equilibrium of both the pulmonary and the cardiovascular systems.

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Nov 4, 2005·Medical Physics·Zhouping WeiAaron Fenster
Aug 4, 2007·European Journal of Pediatrics·Jeroen H L van HoornA L M Twan Mulder
Jan 1, 2010·Journal of Surgical Technique and Case Report·O A SowandeO Adejuyigbe
Nov 5, 2004·Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia = Journal Canadien D'anesthésie·Tomoyo SaitoHiroshi Iwasaki

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