Purpo~: An unusual case of a giant ovarian cyst was successfully anaesthetized with a combination of epidural followed by general anaesthesia. The method was chosen to avoid drculatory depression and re-expansion pulmonary oedema in removal of a giant turnour in a woman who did not understand the nature of her disease.
Clinical s162A 58-yr-old woman (I 07,6 I~, 150 cm and abdominal girth: 163.5 crn) was admitted for removal of a giant ovarian cyst, There was ~ross pitting oedema of both legs and an elevated diaphragm but no pleurai effusion. She did not understand the severity of her disease, tt was decided to drain the cyst gradually, followed by total su~cal removal on the same day. An epidural catheter was inserted at the L~ interspace with the patient in the le~ lateral position and, under epidurai anaesthesia, 44.3 L fluid were drained over two hours without producing circulatory depression or pulmonary oedema. Gene~J anaesthesia was induced, with the patient in the supine position, by slow injection of I 0 mg midazolam, 100/Jg fentanyl and inhalation of nitrous oxide 5096 in oxygen, and maintained with adding epidu~l block using lidocaine 1.5% and bupivacaine 0,5%, and sevoflurane 0.4 to 0.896. Durin 8 surgery, the volume of infused fluid was carefully controlled with cec~b-al venous pressure monitoring. Ulinastatin, a protease inhibitor, was infused to prevent pulmonary oedema. No drculatory depression nor pulmonary oedema occurred perioperatJvely.Conclusion: For the removal of a giant ovarian cyst, slow drainage over two hours under epidura] anaesthesia may safely precede later removal of the cyst on the same day under general anaesthesia.Objectif : ~re la technique arw~th~ique, une ~,pidu~e suivie d'une g~n~rale, adopt~,e pour l'ex&~L~e d'un lolste ovarien g~ant. La technique choisie devait pr~,venir la d~pression drculatoire et l'oed~me pulmonaire par r~expansion lors de l'ex6r~.se de la tumeur. La patiente ~ incapable de comprendre la nature de sa maiadie.