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Positive Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptibility In Vitro Test in a Patient with Mitochondrial Myopathy and Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency
1 Dec 2002
Abstract excerpt
MALIGNANT hyperthermia (MH) is a life-threatening anesthesia-related complication characterized by a hypermetabolic response of skeletal muscle which can be triggered by anesthetic drugs such as halothane and succinlcholine. 1 Although some genes have been identified to be involved in MH (such as the ryanodine receptor gene [RYR1] and the dihydropyridine receptor [DHP] gene) the underlying molecular defect...
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