Perioperative Management and Clinical Outcomes of Liver Transplantation for Children with Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia.

Background and Objectives: Liver transplantation (LT) has been accepted as a life-saving option as a last resort for children with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Perioperative management of LT for HoFH poses extra challenges for clinicians largely due to premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVDs). We aimed to analyze our data of pediatric LT recipients with HoFH, with special attention paid to perioperative management and clinical outcomes.

Anesthesia and airway managements for emergency removal of esophageal foreign body in a trisomy 21 patient with mental retardation and predicted difficult airway: A case report.

Introduction: The typical manifestations of patients with a trisomy 21 syndrome are mental retardation and anatomical deformities of face and neck. In the available literature, all case reports regarding anesthetic management of mentally retarded patients have focused on elective surgeries. There is no report regarding anesthetic management of mentally retarded patients undergoing emergency surgery.

[An audit of perioperative fluid management and electrolyte monitoring in children undergoing surgery for scoliosis].

Objective: To audite and compare the perioperative practices of intravenous fluids and electrolyte & glucose monitoring in children undergoing operations for scoliosis in 2008, 2010, prior to and after the publication of guideline in 2009.

Methods: Retrospective audit was conducted at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, a tertiary referral teaching hospital in Beijing, China. Children under 14 years old with scoliosis treated surgically in 2008 and 2010 were recruited.