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Prolonged myasthenic syndrome after one week of muscle relaxants.
- Source :
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Pediatric neurology [Pediatr Neurol] 1990 May-Jun; Vol. 6 (3), pp. 190-6. - Publication Year :
- 1990
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Abstract
- A child developed severe, generalized muscle weakness which persisted for 6 weeks, after receiving muscle relaxants for 1 week while requiring ventilator support. Electrodiagnostic studies indicated a presynaptic disorder of the neuromuscular junction which improved with high-frequency stimulation, similar to findings in Lambert-Eaton syndrome. Muscle specimens exhibited neurogenic targetoid fiber atrophy. Ultrastructure of the neuromuscular junction indicated terminal axon degeneration and atrophy with depletion of the secretory vesicles. Most reported patients with post-ventilator paresis have received steroids and muscle relaxants; muscle weakness commonly has been brief and attributed to steroids. We believe that this reversible myasthenic syndrome probably represents neurotoxicity due to high doses of steroidal nondepolarizing blocking agents; however, available data are insufficient to resolve this controversy.
- Subjects :
- Atrophy
Child, Preschool
Electromyography
Humans
Male
Myasthenia Gravis pathology
Myasthenia Gravis physiopathology
Neuromuscular Junction physiopathology
Pulmonary Fibrosis drug therapy
Muscles pathology
Myasthenia Gravis chemically induced
Neuromuscular Nondepolarizing Agents adverse effects
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0887-8994
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Pediatric neurology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 2141787
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0887-8994(90)90062-6