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Diagnosis of malignant hyperthermia susceptibility during CABG surgery
1Department of Anesthesiology, Kantonsspital/University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. thierry.girard@unibas.ch
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
|March 13, 2003
Abstract:
A 55-year-old man presented for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Malignant hyperthermia (MH) was suspected in his family. This case report describes a diagnostic approach to obtain a definite MH diagnosis by performing an in vitro contracture test at the time of CABG surgery in combination with molecular genetic investigations.