Obstetric and anesthetic management of severe congenital myasthenia syndrome

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1313-1315

  Terblanche, Nico ^a,b   Maxwell, Cynthia ^b   Keunen, Johannes ^b   Carvalho, Jose C A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CALCIUM; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; DICLOFENAC; EDROPHONIUM; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VOLUME; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDER; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OBSTETRIC CARE; PAPILLEDEMA; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SCOLIOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINE FUSION; SUPPLEMENTATION; TRACHEOSTOMY; VITAL CAPACITY; WEAKNESS; GENETICS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 53449096330     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181823d11     Document Type: Article

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