Anesthetic management of a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
General anesthesia was given twice to a 9-year-old girl with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). LGS is one of the catastrophic forms of childhood epilepsy, and very few reports describe its anesthetic management. The anesthetic concern in LGS patients is a possibility of perioperative epilepsy due to proconvulsive effects of anesthesia-related drugs and due to the interaction between anesthetics and therapeutic drugs. Fortunately, her perioperative course was uneventful. The patients having LGS should be placed under careful observation postoperatively.