Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disorders
Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disorders
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神经肌肉疾病的紧急情况
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-91932-0_13
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发表时间:
2022
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Van Den Ameele J
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Van Den Ameele J
Mitochondrial diseases affect both children and adults with a wide range of clinical presentations ranging from mild chronic progressive external ophthalmoparesis to severe, life-threatening multisystem diseases. When patients are admitted to an ICU, they do not necessarily have a pre-existing diagnosis of mitochondrial disease. Establishing a diagnosis of mitochondrial disease is important because it can have therapeutic and prognostic implications. Patients will often have respiratory weakness, cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia, gastrointestinal problems that lead to malnutrition and pseudo-obstruction, bone marrow failure or diabetes. In addition, mitochondrial dysfunction will further increase vulnerability of many other body systems when confronted with acute illness. Cardiac decompensation due to cardiomyopathy or arrhythmias, and acute cerebral events like seizures or stroke-like episodes (seizure-mediated) are well-recognized and are the leading causes of death in patients with mitochondrial disease. Renal failure, acute liver failure, respiratory failure, encephalopathy with central respiratory depression, lactic acidaemia, and endocrine disturbances like diabetes, hypo- and hyperthyroidism, adrenal insufficiency or hypoparathyroidism, may all further contribute to the significant morbidity and increased mortality in hospitalized patients with mitochondrial disease. This chapter summarizes the clinical presentation, genetic cause and management of mitochondrial diseases leading to intensive care unit (ICU) admission.