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Dose-response relationship for mivacurium in patients with phenotypically abnormal plasma cholinesterase activity.
Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica - 1 Nov 1995
Ostergaard D, Jensen F S, Skovgaard L T, Viby-Mogensen J
Abstract excerpt
During thiopentone-fentanyl-nitrous oxide anaesthesia and using a cumulative design, we studied the dose-response relationship of mivacurium in 8 patients: 7 patients phenotypically homozygous for the atypical plasma cholinesterase gene and 1 patient homozygous for the silent gene. The estimated mean ED50 and ED95 were 15 and 20 micrograms.kg.bw-1 in patients homozygous for the atypical gene, and 13 and 16...
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