Abstract:Cerebrovascular disease is relatively rare in women of childbearing age, but women do present for peripartummanagement with a variety of other vascular disorders. Moyamoya disease is a rare progressive occlusive disease of thecircle of Willis and the proximal intracranial vessels. We report the anesthetic management of a 28-year-old femalepatient with moyamoya disease using epidural anesthesia for a cesarean section. Epidural anesthesia was performedusing endtidal carbon dioxide level monitoring in order to av… Show more
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