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Idiopathic alveolar hypoventilation in Leber's disease Unusual sensitivity to mild analgesics and diazepam
Author(s) -
HUNTER A. R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1984.tb06523.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hypoventilation , diazepam , anesthesia , sedative , drug , abnormality , disease , respiratory system , pharmacology , psychiatry
Summary This case history of abnormal sensitivity to ordinary doses of drug with minimal respiratory depressant activities in Leber's disease underlines the fact that patients with this abnormality are exceedingly sensitive to ordinary doses of anasthetic and sedative drugs.