General Anaesthesia for a baby with Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

Abstract

Mitochromatic Leukodystrophy is a progressive degenerative disorder of white matter. Patients with this disease frequently require anaesthesia for various diagnostic and surgical procedures. These patients pose a lot of anaesthetic problems like seizures, spasticity, risk of aspiration, and copious secretions, in addition to other organs dysfunctions. Our case report is about provision of general anaethesia for a female child for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and gastrostomy tube placement.