The GP and the specialist: gynaecology.
The GP and the specialist: gynaecology.
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全科医生和专科医生:妇科。
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.286.6368.890
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发表时间:
1983
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通讯作者:
John McQueen
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作者:
John McQueen
asserting that the latter proved conclusively the association between halothane and liver necrosis. This is not so: what it does show is that repeated general anaesthetics with halothane can produce in a small number of patients with carcinoma of the cervix a rise in serum alanine transaminase concentrations. He does not mention that in the National Halothane Study out of nine unexplained cases of hepatic necrosis two did not receive halothane. The syndrome of fulminant hepatic necrosis following halothane is indistinguishable in any way from the condition of viral hepatitis. It has been pointed out that by chance alone about 4000 people who are in the incubation phase of viral hepatitis undergo surgery and anaesthesia in a given year.2 For this reason it is difficult to assign the aetiology in many cases of hepatic failure after surgery and anaesthesia to halothane, when unsuspected viral hepatitis may actually be the cause. In the National Halothane Study, despite a higher association of hepatic failure with the unexplained cases, halothane compared well when overall death rates were examined. Halothane was attended by an overall mortality of 1 87>" compared with an average mortality for all anaesthetics in the National Halothane Study of 1-932). It has thus not been proved that halothane causes liver necrosis.