Sino-atrial block during anesthesia in a patient with breast cancer being treated with the anticancer drug epirubicin.

Okamoto, Takashi; Ogata, Junichi; Minami, Kouichiro · Anesth Analg · 2003

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Epirubicin, an anticancer drug, causes cardiotoxicity. We reported a case of sino-atrial block during general anesthesia in a woman with breast cancer who had received epirubicin. Anesthesiologists should be aware of the possible occurrence of sino-atrial block with epirubicin, and planting a pacemaker might be considered even in asymptomatic patients.

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