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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Mitochondrial Diseases, Sjögren’s Syndrome And von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Rarities With Anesthetic Implications

Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York

The second in a series of capsules of pertinent information and precautions concerning rare disorders for the anesthesiologist

von Hippel-Lindau Disease

What Is It?

von Hippel-Lindau (vHL) disease, named after Eugene von Hippel (1904) and Arvid Lindau (1927), is an autosomal dominant inherited systemic cancer syndrome that results in cysts and hemangiomas in many organs, especially involving the eye and