title: Coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with myasthenia gravis.
abstract: A 70-year-old male patient with myasthenia gravis required coronary artery bypass grafting due to triple-vessel disease. The anesthetic management was performed with general anesthesia using reduced doses of muscle relaxants. He was extubated four hours after surgery and the postoperative course was uneventful. Coronary artery bypass surgery in myasthenic patients can be challenging to anesthesiologists and cardiac surgeons. In this rare condition, a meticulous assessment of the patient's neurologic and cardiac status, and careful perioperative anesthetic management were needed in order to avoid life-threatening complications in both intraoperative and postoperative periods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Beylikduzu Kolan Hospital.
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Beylikduzu Kolan Hospital.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ugurlucan
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Beylikduzu Kolan Hospital.
authors.forename: Fatma
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bahceci
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Beylikduzu Kolan Hospital.
authors.forename: Hale Bolgi
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Anadolu Medical Center Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sezer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods*; D018681:Anesthetics, General / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D009125:Muscle Relaxants, Central / Q000008:administration & dosage; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000150:complications*; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D018681:Anesthetics, General; D009125:Muscle Relaxants, Central