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Ephedrine requirements during spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery in Jordanian parturients: association with b2 adrenoceptor gene variants.
Annals of Saudi medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Almustafa Mahmoud M, Al-Oweidi Abdelkareem S, Al-Zaben Khaled R, Qudaisat Ibraheem Y, Abu-Halaweh Sami, Alghanem Subhi M, Massad Islam M, Samarah Walid, Al-Shaer Reem A, Ismail Said, Khazawla Fawaz
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Maternal hypotension after spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery is common. Many studies performed on the b2-adrenoceptor (b2AR) gene variants and their association with vasopressor requirements during and after neuroaxial block have contradictory conclusions. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of the b2AR in codons 16 and 27 on the incidence of maternal hypotension and...
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