Post cardiac surgery diaphragmatic spasm successfully treated with gabapentin
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- 作者：Roberto Spoladore ; Dina Garroni ; Gabriele Fragasso ; Altin Palloshi ; Stefano Amadio ; Chiara Montano ; Angelo Corti and Alberto Margonato
- 关键词：Diaphragmatic spasm ; Gabapentin ; Cardiac surgery
- 刊名：International Journal of Cardiology
- 出版年：2006
- 出版时间：10 May 2006
- 年：2006
- 卷：109
- 期：2
- 页码：282-283
- 全文大小：70 K
文摘
We describe the case of an 82 year old woman developing severe respiratory functional impairment after open heart surgery and subsequent surgical pericardial drainage inducing diaphragmatic spasm and successfully treated with gabapentin.