There have been several questions about surgery/anesthesia and PD.
Here are some quick and dirty references (there are likely many more but I
have neither the visual stamina nor the web search skill to find much more !)
Severn, AM Parkinsonism and the Anaesthetist Brit J Anesth 61: 761-770
1988
Stack, C et al MAOI and Anaesthesia BJA 60:222-227 1988
Weinberg, S Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Anesth@Analg 62:848-850 1983
Reed A Intraoperative Exacerbation of PD Anesth@Analg 75:850-853 1992
Muravchick S PD Symptoms during Emergence from General Anesthesia
Anesthesiology 82: 305-307 1995
Browne B MAOI and Narcotics Brit JPsychiatry 151;210-2121987
Lecrubier Y Risk Benefit assessment of MAOI Drug Safety 10:292-300 1994
Zornberg, G Severe adverse interaction between demerol and selegiline
Lancet 337:246 18991
Wells DG MAOI Revisited Canadian J Anesthesia 36:1 1989
Roizen M MAOI J Clin Anesth 2:293 1990
There are other references of value at the end of these papers.
Ken Janis
