Şule Turgut Balcı1, Ayda Türköz1, Özlem Çınar1, Hüseyin Yüce Bircan2, Ümit Sekmen2

1Departmant Of Anesthesiology And Reanimation, Baskent University, Istanbul, Turkey
2Departmant Of General Surgery, Baskent University, Istanbul, Turkey

Keywords: Ankylosing spondylitis, ventral hernia, paravertebral blockade.

Abstract

Patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) present challenges for anesthesiologists particularly about airway management because of the limited or no cervical spine mobility, fixed flexion deformity of thoracolomber spine and possible temporomandibular joint disease.[1,2] We describe an alternative method to prepare these patients for ventral hernia repair.