• Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Jul 1998

    Case Reports

    Asymptomatic methaemoglobinaemia and its implications.

    • R Chawla, P Kundra, and A Bhattacharya.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.
    • Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 1998 Jul 1; 42 (6): 736-8.

    AbstractAnaesthetists are well trained to detect subtle skin signs of life-threatening situations such as cyanosis in hypoxia. However, cyanosis resulting from drug-induced, asymptomatic methaemoglobinaemia is rare and is likely to go undetected preoperatively. Patients presenting with asymptomatic methaemoglobinaemia may, therefore, offer a dramatic challenge to the unprepared anaesthetist. We report a case of methaemoglobinaemia secondary to dapsone ingestion that was diagnosed intraoperatively.

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