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A family with discordance between malignant hyperthermia susceptibility and rippling muscle disease.
Journal of anesthesia - 1 Feb 2013
Sundblom Jimmy, Melberg Atle, Rücker Franz, Smits Anja, Islander Gunilla
Abstract excerpt
Rippling muscle disease (RMD) is a disorder that affects striated muscle and involves disturbances in calcium homeostasis. Malignant hyperthermia susceptibility (MHS) is a potentially lethal disorder, characterized by extreme hypermetabolism and muscle rigidity/rhabdomyolysis during anesthesia with potent inhalational agents, in otherwise healthy individuals. The aim of this report was to search for a correlation...
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