Abstract

FUENTES DIAZ, Zaily; LOPEZ BARRUECO, Lissette; QUESADA SUAREZ, José Luis  and  RODRIGUEZ SALAZAR, Orlando. Use of the fiberscope in the management of the airway of the ankylopoietic spondylarthritis. A case report. AMC [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.6. ISSN 1025-0255.

The ankylopoietic spondylitis is characterized for mild or moderate outbreaks of active spondylitis that alternate with total or almost total periods of inactivación of the disease with incapacity. A case of a patient submitted to a total arthroplasty of the right hip is presented, since this disease caused to her a degenerative arthrosis of the said hip with incapacity for the march. Due to the predictable tests carried out by the experienced personnel during the management of the airway at the intubation moment through the fiberscope was catalogued as a difficult one.

Keywords : Spondylitis ankylosing [therapy]; predictive value of tests; arthroplasty replacement hip; respiratory function tests.

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