V. Celiker et al., ANESTHETIC MANAGEMENT OF A PATIENT WITH HEREDITARY FRUCTOSE INTOLERANCE AND PHENYLKETONURIA, Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 35(2), 1993, pp. 127-130
This is a report of a five-year-old girl with phenylketonuria (PKU) an
d hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) who underwent elective strabis
mus surgery. PKU and HFI are two inborn errors of metabolism which hav
e an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. This case report describ
es the anesthetic features of a patient with PKU and HFI, ''ch defect
requiring specific anesthetic management.