Parents can be reassured that their children are at very low risk of suffering a malignant hyperthermia reaction to an anaesthetic, says specialist anaesthetist Dr Terasa Bulger. “And should they ...

Early in the course of the development of these agents, haloperidol was found to cause not only hypokinetic and hyperkinetic motor disorders but also a potentially fatal syndrome of muscle rigidity ...

Hot summer temperatures may have you reaching for a fan and an iced drink in your quest to keep cool. But now, researchers from Japan have found that some mutant proteins are even less tolerant of the ...

Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a pharmacogenetic disorder of skeletal muscle calcium regulation. 1 On exposure to certain anaesthetic agents (halogenated inhalational anaesthetics and depolarising ...

A team of researchers has found that mutations in the calcium channel protein RyR1 that confer susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia make the protein hypersensitive to heat, which triggers ...

In their presentation of a case of rhabdomyolysis possibly associated with mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, Salter and colleagues1 are to be commended for elucidating the relevant differential diagnosis, ...

Correspondence to: Professor P M Hopkins Malignant Hyperthermia Investigation Unit, Academic Unit of Anaesthesia, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK;p.m.hopkins{at}leeds.ac.uk If you ...

A healthy 8-year-old boy needs elective oral surgery for excision of an extra tooth. His paternal great-great-uncle died of suspected malignant hyperthermia (MH). The boy’s mother has had two cesarean ...

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The Ambulatory Surgery Foundation and Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States have announced the joint release of guidelines to help ASCs develop plans for properly transferring a ...

Malignant hyperthermia is an uncommon disorder that presents in an ambulatory surgery center utilizing general anesthesia. Preparation for management of this condition needs to be a significant part ...