PROLONGED MUSCLE WEAKNESS FOLLOWING EMERGENCY TONSILLECTOMY IN A PATIENT WITH FAMILIAL PERIODIC PARALYSIS AND INFECTIOUS-MONONUCLEOSIS

Authors
BUNTING HE ALLEN RW
Citation
He. Bunting et Rw. Allen, PROLONGED MUSCLE WEAKNESS FOLLOWING EMERGENCY TONSILLECTOMY IN A PATIENT WITH FAMILIAL PERIODIC PARALYSIS AND INFECTIOUS-MONONUCLEOSIS, Paediatric anaesthesia, 7(2), 1997, pp. 171-175
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology,Pediatrics
Journal title
Paediatric anaesthesia → ACNP
ISSN journal
11555645
Volume
7
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
171 - 175
Database
ISI
SICI code
1155-5645(1997)7:2<171:PMWFET>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
A thirteen-year-old. girl with normokalaemic familial periodic paralys is (FPP) suffered life threatening upper airway obstruction secondary to tonsillopharyngitis resulting from infectious mononucleosis (IM). E mergency tonsillectomy was performed, but her postoperative course was complicated by persistent muscle weakness requiring a very prolonged period of artificial ventilation.