Abstract
A 48-year-old healthy woman was admitted in our hospital for elective hemorrhoidectomy. She developed sudden headache and chest pain, and showed sinus bradycardia, arrhythmia and hypotension forty minutes after spinal anesthesia with 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine. An EKG showed ST depression and an transthoracic echocardiogram performed in PACU demonstrated mild LV dysfunction with hypokinesia of LV inferolateral wall. An coronary angiography on postoperative day 1 revealed normal coronary vessel and akinesia of LV inferior wall. Levels of CK-MB and Troponin I were mildly elevated. With medical therapy, the patient's symptoms improved and recovered without any complication.
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