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You are an attending anesthesiologist in a university hospital. Today, together with a resident, you are scheduled to anesthetize a 52-year-old man for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. He is 160 lbs and 5′10″ tall. His past history is significant for a heart transplant for cardiomyopathy 3 months previously. He is back at work in an office but claims that he has a good exercise tolerance. He is afebrile. At present he takes immunosuppression medication with a low-dose prednisone. He is also on antifungal prophylaxis (itraconazole).
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 81: A Patient with a Transplanted Heart for Cholecystectomy. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_81
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