A sudden death in a child with all and myelodysplastic syndrome during splenectomy; a case report

Levent Sahin; Mehrican Sahin; Omer Aktas; Eray Mandollu

A sudden death in a child with all and myelodysplastic syndrome during splenectomy; a case report

Levent Sahin, Mehrican Sahin, Omer Aktas, Eray Mandollu

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Abstract

Fatal Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a rare but mortal complication in pediatric patients with leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). This paper reports a sudden and fatal hypoxaemia and cardiovascular collapse, commented as PE, in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and MDS during a splenectomy under general anesthesia.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1072-1075
Number of pages	4
Journal	HealthMED
Volume	5
Issue number	5
State	Published - 2011

Keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Anesthesia
Children
Fatal pulmonary embolism
Myelodysplastic syndrome

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