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- noun One of the two types of
cholinesterase (the other beingacetylcholinesterase ), found primarily in theliver where ithydrolyses butyrylcholine .
Etymologies
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Also unnecessary is pre-ECT screening for a pseudocholinesterase deficiency, which predisposes the patient to prolonged post-ECT apnea resulting from impaired metabolism of succinylcholine.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Prolonged apnea is a rare complication of ECT muscle relaxation that results from a relative deficiency of pseudocholinesterase, the enzyme that degrades succinylcholine.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Patients with deficiency of serum pseudocholinesterase appear to be at particular risk of life threatening cocaine toxicity.
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Patients with deficiency of serum pseudocholinesterase appear to be at particular risk of life threatening cocaine toxicity.
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