title: Anesthesia for a child with Walker-Warburg syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Walker-Warburg Syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive congenital muscular dystrophy manifested by central nervous system, eye malformations and possible multisystem involvement. The diagnosis is established by the presence of four criteria: congenital muscular dystrophy, type II lissencephaly, cerebellar malformation, and retinal malformation. Most of the syndromic children die in the first three years of life because of respiratory failure, pneumonia, seizures, hyperthermia and ventricular fibrillation.
  
  
  METHODS
  The anesthetic management of a two-months-old male child listed for elective ventriculo-peritoneal shunt operation was discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A careful anesthetic management is necessary due to the multisystem involvement. We reported anesthetic management of a two-months-old male child with Walker-Warburg Syndrome who was listed for elective ventriculo-peritoneal shunt operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey. Electronic address: arzuhct@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Emine Arzu
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kose
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bulent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bakar
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gokay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ates
authors.affiliation: Department of Neonatology, School of Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey.
authors.forename: Didem
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aliefendioglu
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, School of Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey.
authors.forename: Alpaslan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Apan
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D058494:Walker-Warburg Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Congenital muscular dystrophy; General anesthesia; Walker–Warburg Syndrome