A case of anesthetic management using levobupivacaine in epidural anesthesia combined with general anesthesia for thymectomy with thoracoscopy for generalized type myasthenia gravis].

Yoshihisa Fujino, Kengo Maeda, Nobuhiro Ogawa, Takuya Fujita, Chiho Matsuyama, Takao Saotome, Yoshitomo Ozaki, Masatsugu Ohuchi, Shuhei Inoue

Department of Anesthesiology, National Hospital Organization, Shiga Hospital, Higashioumi 527-8505.

Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology 2012 May

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Combined epidural and general anesthesia has become a standard anesthetic method for thymectomy. We employed levobupivacaine for epidural anesthesia combined with general anesthesia using remifentanil and sevoflurane for thymectomy with thoracoscopy for generalized type of myasthenia gravis. After decreasing the high level of antibodies to acethylcholine receptor by plasmapheresis, we could perform a stable and successful anesthetic management without the use of any muscle relaxants for the thymectomy. And a myasthenic crisis did not occur after the procedure. We concluded that levobupivacaine would be one of the appropriate options in epidural anesthesia for thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.

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Yoshihisa Fujino, Kengo Maeda, Nobuhiro Ogawa, Takuya Fujita, Chiho Matsuyama, Takao Saotome, Yoshitomo Ozaki, Masatsugu Ohuchi, Shuhei Inoue. A case of anesthetic management using levobupivacaine in epidural anesthesia combined with general anesthesia for thymectomy with thoracoscopy for generalized type myasthenia gravis]. Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology. 2012 May;61(5):535-7