Article
Pretreatment with pancuronium before suxamethonium administration in patients heterozygous for the usual and the atypical plasma cholinesterase gene.
Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica - 1 Aug 1991
Ostergaard D, Viby-Mogensen J, Hanel H K, Skovgaard L T
Abstract excerpt
The object of this study was to investigate whether pretreatment with pancuronium before i.v. injection of suxamethonium could cause prolonged neuromuscular blockade in patients heterozygous for the usual and the atypical plasma cholinesterase gene (E1uE1a). Forty-three patients, 23 with genotype E1uE1a and 20 with normal genotype (E1uE1u), were pretreated with pancuronium 0.01 mg.kg-1 followed by suxamethonium...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Cholinesterases
- Female
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Injections, Intravenous
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neuromuscular Junction
