Browsing by Author "Bösenberg, A"

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    Anaesthesia and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
    (MedPharm Publications, 2006) Bösenberg, A; Larkin, K
    Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is named after three neurologists. Charcot and Marie first described this unusual slowly progressive hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy in France in 18861 . The muscle atrophy was characterized by weakness and wasting of the feet and leg muscles, followed by involvement of the hands. Tooth, in England, also described this peroneal type of progressive muscular atrophy with essentially the same clinical features in the same year. Tooth correctly postulated correctly that the disease was due to a neuropathy and not a myelopathy as was proposed by Charcot and Marie.
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    Anaesthesia and familial dysautonomia with congenital insensitivity to pain
    (South African Society of Anesthesiologist, 2005) Bösenberg, A
    Synopsis of the patient: A six year old boy presented for cosmetic surgery to his nose, which had been fractured some months previously. The trauma had resulted in some deviation of the nasal septum and ugly scarring on the bridge of his nose. Mother explained that he was accident prone and very emotionally labile. Significantly he had developed a compartment syndrome following a tibial fracture at 4 years of age. The fracture went unnoticed initially because he continued to run around unperturbed. His mother was somewhat aggressive and distrustful of the medical fraternity as she had been suspected of child abuse in the past.
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    Anaesthesia and Sirenomelia (Mermaid Syndrome)
    (2005) Bösenberg, A
    A 2.4kg one day old, the product of a 36-week monozygotic twin pregnancy born to a 24 yr. old primigravida by C-section for foetal distress, presented for laparotomy. The child’s mother had attended antenatal clinic once during her otherwise uneventful pregnancy. No antenatal investigations were performed. The monozygotic twin sibling, a male weighing 2.65kg, was completely normal.