Cerebral infarction after deflation of a pneumatic tourniquet during total knee replacement

Anesthesiology. 1999 Jan;90(1):297-8. doi: 10.1097/00000542-199901000-00035.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee*
  • Brain / pathology
  • Cerebral Infarction / etiology*
  • Cerebral Infarction / pathology
  • Embolism, Paradoxical / etiology*
  • Embolism, Paradoxical / pathology
  • Female
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / pathology
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / etiology*
  • Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / pathology
  • Intraoperative Complications / etiology*
  • Intraoperative Complications / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Tourniquets*
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color