Fatal Methaemoglobin Intoxication Following Ketamine Infusion in a Depressed MELAS Patient: A Possible Association?
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Methemoglobinemia is defined as an increase in methemoglobin of > 2% of hemoglobin. Ketamine is increasingly used for severe depression. To our knowledge, a patient with mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) who died su... ...