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The elusive management of an individual patient with SCN9A sodium channelopathy in the perioperative setting.
Pain - 1 Sept 2026
Wadle Michael, Szafarowicz Bianca, Nykiel-Bailey Sydney, Tan Brandon, AuBuchon Jacob, Njoku Dolores
Abstract excerpt
ABSTRACT: Mutations in the SCN9A gene, which encodes the sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 9 on chromosome 2 (Nav1.7), are extremely rare and play a crucial role in pain signaling. Depending on the type of mutation, the clinical presentation of these mutations can vary widely from hyperactive pain phenotypes such as primary erythromelalgia to hypoactive pain phenotypes manifesting as congenital...
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