title: Acute heart failure during spinal surgery in a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
abstract: Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are at high risk of perioperative complications. DMD may be accompanied by heart failure resulting from dystrophic involvement of the myocardium, which can be subclinical in the early stages of the disease. This case demonstrates that a normal preoperative ECG and echocardiograph cannot exclude the development of heart failure during anaesthesia in DMD patients undergoing major surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. guschmid@uke.uni-hamburg.de
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: M-A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Burmeister
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lilje
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wappler
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bischoff
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000209:etiology; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008297:Male; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods; D020388:Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / Q000601:surgery*; D013131:Spine / Q000601:surgery*; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000209:etiology; D014463:Ultrasonography