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Anaesthesia and the Kearns‐Sayre syndrome
Author(s) -
ESTES R.,
GINSBERG B.,
BLOCH E.C.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-9592.1993.tb00094.x
Subject(s) - medicine , myopathy , kearns–sayre syndrome , anesthesia , general anaesthesia , pediatrics , biochemistry , chemistry , mitochondrial dna , gene
Summary A six‐month‐old infant presented for anaesthesia with, unbeknown to us, some of the manifestations of the Kearns‐Sayre Syndrome. This syndrome is one of the clinical presentations in patients with mitochondral myopathy. The anaesthetic related events and aspects of mitochondral myopathy are described and caveats are suggested for the management of anaesthesia for patients with this type of myopathy.