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Anaesthetic management of a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
1Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
We describe the anaesthetic management of a patient with a rare form of muscular dystrophy (Facioscapulohumeral or Landouzy-Dejerine type). Anaesthesia and controlled ventilation using alfentanil-nitrous oxide and atracurium was satisfactory. In this patient, sensitivity to atracurium was found to be similar to that of the normal population, but more rapid recovery was observed.