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Choreoathetosis after surgery for congenital heart disease
R G Curless1, D A Katz, R A Perryman
1Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
Choreoathetosis developed in three patients after cardiopulmonary bypass with hypothermia. None had significant hypotension or hypoxemia; all had hypocapnia and respiratory alkalosis during the rewarming period. We postulate that hypocapnia-induced cerebral vasoconstriction may have contributed to ischemic damage in focal central nervous system areas.