Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery | 卷:22 |
Safety management in urgent endonasal trans-sphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan – A case report | |
Kunitaka Maruyama1  Yoshitomo Morinaga2  Satoshi Kuroda3  Hiromasa Takakura4  Takuya Akai4  Yoshihiro Yamamoto5  | |
[1] Corresponding author at: Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.; | |
[2] Departments of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan; | |
[3] Departments of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan; | |
[4] Departments of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan; | |
[5] Departments of Otolaryngology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan; | |
关键词: COVID-19; Trans-sphenoidal surgery; RT-PCR; Chest CT; Pandemic; Insurance; | |
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来源: DOAJ |
【 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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