PURPOSE
To describe the anesthetic management of a patient with Jansky-Bielschowsky disease (JBD), the late infantile form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, characterized by dementia, severe and drug resistant grand mal, myoclonic seizures, and blindness.
CLINICAL FEATURES
A 14-yr-old girl with JBD was scheduled for resection of a gingival tumour and an infected sinus in the sacral area. Her...