Anesthetic management of a patient with severe neck dystonia during MRI

Sir, Anesthesia for diagnostic services in neurologically ill patients with airway related problems is challenging for the anesthesiologist, especially at remote locations like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite. Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease of the central and autonomic nervous system and is categorized into MSA with the predominant parkinsonism and MSA with predominant cerebellar ataxia (MSA-C).[1] These patients often present with neck ante flexion and sleep-related breathing disturbances which make both lying supine for long periods and deep sedation difficult.

• Publication year

  2016

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  Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.4103/0970-9185.175717PMID 27006556PMCID 4784191
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