Ropivacaine Activates Multiple Proapoptotic and Inflammatory Signaling Pathways That Might Subsume to Trigger Epidural-Related Maternal Fever

Abstract

This study suggests that ropivacaine causes cellular injury and death in HUVECs and TBs via different signaling pathways. The detrimental effects induced by ropivacaine are only partially blunted by dexamethasone. This observation strengthens the importance of inflammation in ERMF.