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AANA Journal course: update for nurse anesthetists--genetic testing for malignant hyperthermia.
AANA journal - 1 Dec 1996
Curtis S
Abstract excerpt
The "gold standard" for the determination of susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia has long been the caffeine-halothane-contracture test, which is costly and invasive. As the workings of molecular genetics are better understood, research is being applied to finding the causative gene for malignant hyperthermia. Once this gene is identified, genetic testing will involve a much simpler, less invasive test that...
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