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[Malignant hyperthermia as a complication of anesthesia: predisposition is hereditary].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 29 Mar 1997
Snoeck M M, Gielen M J, Sengers R C, Padberg G W, Iles D E, Booij L H
Abstract excerpt
The frequency of malignant hyperthermia in the Netherlands is about 1 in 200,000 anaesthesias. Five times a year, an anaesthetic procedure will be complicated by a malignant hyperthermic metabolic disturbance, which can cause death if treatment is not instituted rapidly, by the administration of dantrolene. Suxamethonium and all the anaesthetic vapours can trigger such a reaction. Malignant hyperthermia patients...
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