Comment on: “Use of combined spinal epidural technique with milrinone nebulization in a patient with pulmonary stenosis posted for elective cesarean section - A case report -”
Rohan Magoon · 2026
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Description
Magoon wrote a comment in 2026 on a case report of anaesthesia for a cesarean birth in a woman with pulmonary stenosis, a narrowed heart valve outlet to the lungs. The original team used a combined spinal-epidural technique plus inhaled milrinone, a heart-supporting drug, and the mother had improved after a balloon widening of the valve during pregnancy.
Magoon asks for missing details that would help readers judge this high-risk case. Objective measures of the right ventricle's size and pumping performance, following current imaging guidelines, would back the claim that the inhaled drug helped the dilated, thickened chamber. The mother's height matters too, since it shapes spinal dosing choices. The baby's Apgar score, the standard newborn health rating, deserved reporting given steroid cover and slow fetal growth. The comment aims to sharpen how such rare cases are documented.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rohan Magoon |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |