Malignant hyperthermia is a rare, life-threatening rise in body temperature that occurs in susceptible people who are given certain muscle-relaxing medications plus an anesthetic gas for surgery. Malignant hyperthermia is a severe reaction to particular anesthetic drugs that are often used during surgery and other invasive procedures. Explore symptoms, inheritance, genetics of this condition.

In most people with malignant hyperthermia susceptibility, they have few or no symptoms unless they are …