Goldberg ME, Larijani GE, Eger EI. Peripheral neuropathy in healthy men volunteers anesthetized with 1.25 MAC sevoflurane for 8 hours.
Pharmacotherapy 1999;
19:1173-6. [PMID:
10512067 DOI:
10.1592/phco.19.15.1173.30573]
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Abstract
Two men volunteers developed peripheral neuropathy after prolonged anesthesia with 1.25 minimum alveolar concentration sevoflurane at an inflow rate of 2 L/minute of fresh gas that caused concurrent administration of relatively large doses (ppm-hrs) of the degradation product of sevoflurane, compound A. Other similarly treated volunteers had lesser degrees of transient neuropathy. This result does not prove but raises the question of whether compound A or other factors associated with sevoflurane anesthesia can predispose patients to peripheral neuropathy.
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