Failure to control the airway in a patient with Hunter's syndrome.

Hunter's syndrome is due to recessively inherited mucopolysaccharide storage diseases. The anaesthetic complications in this syndrome are related to the organs involved in the disease, but pertain especially to upper airway obstruction problems. We report a patient with Hunter's syndrome who, while under general anaesthesia for a simple procedure (the introduction of bilateral grommets), suffered a fatal outcome.

[Huntington's disease: molecular basis and detection of carriers].

Huntington's disease (HD) results from extensive damage to the nerve cells of the brain cortex and basal ganglia. The gene associated with these changes was mapped in 1983 to the short arm of chromosome 4, at 4p16.3.