Anesthesia-induced rhabdomyolysis in infants with unsuspected Duchenne dystrophy.
Anesthesia-induced rhabdomyolysis in infancy may represent an unsuspected Duchenne dystrophy. In order to establish the diagnosis of this genetic disease more definitively, a dystrophin test is a requisite following the conventional creatine kinase test and light and electron microscopies of the muscle biopsy.
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Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53201.
Oechler
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Siker
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Segura
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Franciosi
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D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009132:Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012206:Rhabdomyolysis / Q000139:chemically induced*