• Anaesth Intensive Care · Oct 2007

    Case Reports

    Recurrence of focal seizure activity in an infant during induction of anaesthesia with sevoflurane.

    • V Rewari and D Sethi.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India.
    • Anaesth Intensive Care. 2007 Oct 1;35(5):788-91.

    AbstractA three-month-old male infant, previously diagnosed with seizures with a focal origin induced by hypocalcaemia secondary to hypoparathyroidism, presented for right cataract surgery. The hypocalcaemia and seizure activity had resolved with medical therapy, with normal calcium levels and no seizures for a month. Anaesthesia with halothane and isoflurane for left cataract surgery two days previously had been uneventful. During induction of anaesthesia with sevoflurane for the right cataract surgery, the patient had a focal seizure similar to those previously occurring when the patient was hypocalcaemic. The patient had normal calcium levels at the time of surgery. It appears likely that sevoflurane had triggered seizure activity in the apparently controlled focus. The potential for sevoflurane to induce epileptogenic activity in patients with reduced seizure threshold is discussed.

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