Citation

Bourdon L, Canini F. Med. Hypotheses 1995; 45(3): 268-270.

Affiliation

Centre de Recherces du Service de Santé des Armées, La Tronche, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8569550

Abstract

Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare myopathy inducing severe accident when carriers are exposed to triggering agents. MH susceptibility (MHS) is assessed by pharmacological tests performed on muscle strips. Exertional heat stroke (EHS) is a severe accident occurring during long and strenuous exercise. It has been observed that numerous EHS patients are susceptible to MH according to pharmacological tests. Because most of those EHS-MHS subjects were soldiers, we hypothesize that military duty could select subjects with infraclinical myopathy and therefore would increase the MHS:EHS subject ratio.

Language: en