• A & A case reports · Oct 2013

    Spontaneous hyphema in a patient undergoing laparoscopic appendectomy.

    • Yara Aljalbout and Jennifer Sandadi.
    • From the Department of Anesthesiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
    • A A Case Rep. 2013 Oct 1;1(1):8.

    AbstractHyphema, an ophthalmic pathology characterized by blood accumulation in the anterior chamber of the eye, has never been linked to administration of general anesthesia. We present the case of a spontaneous hyphema occurring on emergence from general anesthesia in a postlaparoscopic appendectomy patient. A valsalva-like maneuver with breath-holding during stage II of emergence or during CO2 insufflation may have led to the development of hyphema.

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