Dengue Fever-Triggered Malignant Hyperthermia

Malignant Hyperthermia

''Malignant Hypothermia'' syndrome is a rare, but dangerous occurrence, the aetiology of which is not known. Up to this date 180 cases have been reported. This syndrome i's seen generally in :male children over age of two years, and especially in adolescent males. Also those people with muscular abnormalities are more susciptable to this illnes'S. Anaesthetic agent such as halothane or muscular...

Malignant hyperthermia following rhinoplasty: a case report

Malignant hyperthermia is a rare and fatal disorder. A 16-year-old male patient was a candidate for rhinoplasty surgery with no history of disease and previous surgery, negative family history and no history of medication use in the operating room. Maintenance of anesthesia was performed with O2, NO2 (50% -50%) and MAC isoflurane 1. Gradually, from the 80th minute after the start of the operati...

Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Continued geographic expansion of dengue viruses and their mosquito vectors has seen the magnitude and frequency of epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF) increase dramatically. More than 200,000,000 infections and over 2 million cases of DHF occur annually, and dengue is one of the most important emerging tropical diseases in the world. Its dramatically increased incidence and geogr...

Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Dengue fever.

158 Hong Kong Med J Vol 15 No 2 # April 2009 # www.hkmj.org To the Editor—I read with interest the article by Chuang et al on “Review of dengue fever cases in Hong Kong during 1998 to 2005”.1 They have provided an excellent overview of the epidemiology, clinical, laboratory findings, and outcomes of patients presenting in their hospital with dengue. In India, dengue fever is endemic in many pla...