ECMO for Metabolic Crisis in a Patient with Mitochondrial Disease

Patients with mitochondrial disease exhibit disrupted pyruvate oxidation, resulting in intraoperative and perioperative physiologic derangements. Increased enzymatic conversion of pyruvate via lactate dehydrogenase during periods of fasting or stress can lead to metabolic decompensation, with rapid...

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Main Authors: Sonal Sharma, Clifford Deerman, Michael H. Andreae, Conrad Myler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Anesthesiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9914311