Safety management in urgent endonasal trans-sphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan - A case report

被引：1

作者：

Akai, Takuya ^{[1
]}

Maruyama, Kunitaka ^{[1
]}

Takakura, Hiromasa ^{[2
]}

Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^{[3
]}

Morinaga, Yoshitomo ^{[4
]}

Kuroda, Satoshi ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Toyama, Grad Sch Med & Pharmaceut Sci, Dept Neurosurg, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 9300194, Japan

[2] Univ Toyama, Grad Sch Med & Pharmaceut Sci, Dept Otolaryngol, Toyama, Japan

[3] Univ Toyama, Grad Sch Med & Pharmaceut Sci, Dept Clin Infect Dis, Toyama, Japan

[4] Univ Toyama, Grad Sch Med & Pharmaceut Sci, Dept Microbiol, Toyama, Japan

来源：

INTERDISCIPLINARY NEUROSURGERY-ADVANCED TECHNIQUES AND CASE MANAGEMENT | 2020年 / 22卷

关键词：

COVID-19; Trans-sphenoidal surgery; RT-PCR; Chest CT; Pandemic; Insurance;

D O I：

10.1016/j.inat.2020.100820

中图分类号：

R74 [神经病学与精神病学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

We report a 72-year-old woman who required urgent endonasal trans-sphenoidal surgery (eTSS) because of progressive visual field disturbance due to pituitary adenoma, in whom we conducted reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) for COVID-19 and chest CT before eTSS. We took care of her by following the rule for suspected infection patient, and safely completed her treatment without medical staff infection. Under COVID-19 pandemic state, essentially careful management including RT-PCR test and chest CT should be taken for the high infection risk surgeries to avoid the outbreak through the hospital. And the cost of RT-PCR test for the patients should be covered by the government budget.

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