Anesth Pain Med.
2010 Oct;5(4):329-332.
General anesthesia for a spinal muscular atrophy type I patientundergoing feeding gastrostomy: A case report
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea. maeteo@hanmir.com
Abstract
- Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in children leads to progressive muscle weakness, dysphagia, aspiration, and death. The most common and severe form of SMA is designated as type I, also known as Werdnig-Hoffman Disease or Floppy Baby syndrome. We anesthetized an 8 month-old female infant with SMA type I undergoing feeding gastrostomy. We planned to use inhalational anesthesia without muscle relaxants. Anesthesia and surgery were uneventful. We herein report a case of successful peri-operative anesthetic management for SMA type I infant with aspiration pneumonia.
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