Article
Malignant hyperthermia susceptibility, an autosomal dominant disorder?
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 1997
Fagerlund T H, Islander G, Ranklev Twetman E, Berg K
Abstract excerpt
A large series of Swedish nuclear families, in which malignant hyperthermia (MH) reactions had occurred during anaesthesia, have been examined with respect to malignant hyperthermia susceptibility. In vitro contracture tests (IVCT) of muscle strips were conducted to diagnose MH status. Included in this series were some families where only one of the parents was tested by IVCT, while in 79 of the families both...
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