Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
 
MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA (MH) TESTING CENTER

Abstracts & Publications

  1. Henry Rosenberg, M.D., * Joseph F. Antognini, M.D., & Shelia Muldoon, M.D.: Testing for malignant Hyperthermia; Anesthesiology Jan 2002
  2. Urwyler A, Deufel T. McCarty T, West S, for the European Malignant Hyperthermia Group: Guidelines for molecular genetics detection of susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia. Br J Anaesth 2001; 86; 283-7.
  3. Robinson RL, Hopkins PM: A breakthrough in the genetics diagnosis of malignant hyperthermia. Br J Anaesth 2001; 86:166-8.
  4. Fletcher JE, Rosenberg H, Aggarwal M: Comparison of European and North American malignant hyperthermia diagnostic protocol outcomes for uses in genetic studies. Anesthesiology 1999: 90:654-61.
  5. Brandt A, Schleithoff L., Jurkat-Rott K, Klinger W, Baur C, Lehmann-Horn F: Screening of the ryanodine receptor gene in 105 malignant hyperthermia families: Novel mutations and contracture with the in vitro contracture test. Hum Mol Genetics 1999: 8: 2055-62.
  6. Allen GC, Larch MG, Kunselman AR: The sensitivity and specificity of the caffeine-halothane contracture test: a report from the North American Malignant Hyperthermia Registry. The North American Malignant Hyperthermia Registry of MHAUS. Anesthesiology 1998; 88:579-88.
  7. Loke JC, MacLennan DH: Bayesian modeling of muscle biopsy contracture testing for malignant hyperthermia susceptibility. Anesthesiology 1998; 88:589-600.
  8. Larch MG, Localio AR, Allen GC, Denborough MA, Ellis FR, Gronert GA, Kaplan RF, Muldoon SM, Nelson TE, Ording H, Rosenberg H, Waud BE, Wedel DJ: A clinical grading scale to predict malignant hyperthermia susceptibility. Anesthesiology 1994; 80:771-9.
  9. Larch MG: Standardization of the caffeine halothane muscle contracture test. North American Malignant Hyperthermia Group. Anesth Analg 1989; 69:511-5.
  10. Anonymous: A protocol for the investigation of malignant hyperpyrexia (MH) susceptibility. The Malignant Hyperpyrexia Group. Br J Anaesth 1984; 56:1267-9.
  11. Henry Rosenberg, MD, and Susan Reed, BS: In Vitro Contracture Tests for Susceptibility to Malignant Hyperthermia; Anesth Analg 1983; 62:415-20.