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Postoperative visual disturbance: “A peril related to glycine toxicity”
Deepak Dwivedi, Saurabh Sud, Sadhan Sawhney, Ashutosh Gupta
Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Command Hospital (Southern Command), Pune, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Lt Col Saurabh Sud
Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Command Hospital (Southern Command), Pune - 411 040, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jmms.jmms_24_18
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Hysteroscopic gynecological surgeries are now commonly employed in the clinical practice. It has the potential to increase morbidity due to the complication resulting from perforation of the uterus, air/gas embolism, and fluid with electrolyte imbalance. Glycine 1.5%, as an irrigating fluid, is being commonly used and on increased systemic absorption can lead to a wide array of complications. We present a case of transient visual loss after increased absorption of the irrigating fluid, thereby highlighting the factors governing in its genesis and prevention. |
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