Anesthetic management of a pregnant patient with a pure red cell aplasia

Abstract

Pure red cell disorder is an uncommon disorder in which maturation arrest occurs in the maturation of erythrocytes. Erythroblats are virtually absent in the bone marrow. Surgery poses a very high-risk for these patients because of the several complications that can occur in the perioperative period. In this case report, we report a pregnant patient with a pure red cell aplasia who was optimized pre-operatively and underwent cesarean section under sub-arachnoid block.

Keywords

• Pure red cell aplasia
• sub-arachnoid block
• pregnancy