Perioperative considerations for adult patients with Dravet syndrome in regional centres.

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Dravet syndrome (DS) is a rare and intractable severe form of epilepsy presenting in infancy with frequent prolonged myoclonic seizures and neurodevelopmental impairment, associated with a SCN1A gene mutation. Seizures are often triggered by temperature fluctuations and hyperthermia. This report presents a woman in her late adolescence with DS complicated with intractable catamenial epilepsy, a sex-specific form...

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