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Malignant Hyperthermia and Muscular Dystrophies
Anesthesia & Analgesia, 09/18/09

Gurnaney H et al. – Dystrophic patients who are exposed to inhaled anesthetics may develop disease–related cardiac complications, or rarely, a malignant hyperthermia–like syndrome characterized by rhabdomyolysis. This latter complication may also occur postoperatively. Succinylcholine administration is associated with life–threatening hyperkalemia and should be avoided in patients with DMD and BD.

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Malignant Hyperthermia - Diagnostics, Treatment and Anaesthetic Management
Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS, 11/17/09 Relevance Score: 89%

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Psychosomatic Medicine, 11/03/09 Relevance Score: 89%

Ambulatory surgery and malignant hyperthermia
Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 11/04/09 Relevance Score: 83%

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Paediatric Anaesthesia, 10/13/09 Relevance Score: 82%

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Anesthesia & Analgesia, 10/01/09 Relevance Score: 81%