Vocal Cord Palsy as a Complication of Epidural Anaesthesia

Table 1

Summary of reported cases of unilateral vocal cord palsy following spinal or epidural anaesthesia.

Case	Age	Gender	Type of anaesthesia	Procedure	Side of paresis	Timing of onset	Duration	Treatment
Guardiani et al. [4]	50	F	Spinal	Knee arthroplasty	Right	Immediate	1 year	Medialisation with methylcellulose
Guardiani et al. [4]	60	F	Spinal	Knee arthroplasty	Left	4 days	1 year	Observation
Guardiani et al. [4]	30	F	Combined spinal epidural	Vaginal delivery	Right (1st)/left (recurrent)	1 week/3 days	6 months	Tapering dose steroids
Perez et al. [5]	30	F	Epidural	Caesarian section	Right	3 days	6 months	Observation
Guevara et al. [6]	47	F	Spinal	ORIF tibia and fibula	Right	1 day	8 weeks	Observation