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Cardiac anaesthesia in a patient with myotonic dystrophy
Author(s) -
TANAKA M.,
TANAKA Y.
Publication year - 1991
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.1365-2044.1991.tb11684.x
Subject(s) - medicine , enflurane , myotonic dystrophy , anesthesia , atelectasis , sick sinus syndrome , droperidol , fentanyl , surgery , bronchoscopy , general anaesthesia , lung , isoflurane
Summary We describe a patient with myotonic dystrophy who required open‐heart surgery for an atrial septal defect. He also had a sick sinus syndrome and an abnormal myocardium on histological examination. Anaesthesia using fentanyl, droperidol, nitrous oxide and a low concentration of enflurane was uneventful. Atelectasis of the left lung developed on the first postoperative day after removal of the tracheal tube. This was successfully treated by fibreoptic bronchoscopy.