Acute hyperosmolar coma complicating anesthesia for hydatid disease surgery

Sedation for percutaneous treatment of hepatic hydatid cyst in a pregnant patient

BACKGROUND

A 15 cm hepatic hydatid cyst was diagnosed in a multigravida in 16 weeks of pregnancy and was managed percutaneously under sedation.

RESULTS

No complication occurred and she gave birth to a healthy male baby after 37 weeks gestation.

The anesthetic management of an intrabronchial escape of a hydatid's ruptured laminated membrane during rigid bronchoscopy

We describe the anesthetic management of a case in whom a previously undiagnosed pulmonary hydatid cyst manifested as a large amount of intrabronchial fragmented pieces of laminated membrane suddenly and unexpectedly during diagnostic rigid bronchoscopy.