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Epidural hematoma unrelated to combined spinal-epidural anesthesia in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis receiving aspirin after total hip replacement.

Hyderally HA

Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, New York 10029, USA. hhyderally@nj.rr.com

Although rare, major complications after spinal and epidural anesthesia do occur. The safety of spinal and epidural anesthesia has been well established. This is a report of an epidural hematoma in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis who received aspirin for thromboprophylaxis after total hip replacement that was unrelated to the combined spinal-epidural anesthetic. Most epidural hematomas are spontaneous and idiopathic.

Published 24 February 2005 in Anesth Analg, 100(3): 882-3, table of contents.
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