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Successful management of dexmedetomidine for postoperative intensive care sedation in a patient with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: a case report and animal experiment

BACKGROUND: Anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDA-R) encephalitis is a recently identified but increasingly recognized autoimmune paraneoplastic disease. Because these patients present complex neuropsychiatric symptoms due to NMDA-R dysfunction, the optimal methods of sedation/anesthesia remain c...

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Autores principales: Yamanaka, Daiki, Kawano, Takashi, Tateiwa, Hiroki, Iwata, Hideki, Locatelli, Fabricio M., Yokoyama, Masataka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27610299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3079-3