• Paediatric anaesthesia · Feb 2006

    Case Reports

    The postoperative cardiovascular arrest of a 5-year-old male: an initial presentation of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.

    • Michael Girshin, Jana Mukherjee, Ross Clowney, Lewis P Singer, and John Wasnick.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY 10467, USA. mgirshin@montefiore.org
    • Paediatr Anaesth. 2006 Feb 1;16(2):170-3.

    AbstractAnesthesia may be administered to patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, but cases are reported in which apparently healthy children suffer hyperkalemic cardiac arrest. We present the case of a 5-year-old boy whose muscular dystrophy was discovered following a fatal, perioperative cardiac arrest in the postanesthesia care unit.

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