[Anesthetic management of patients with muscular disease?].

The past two decades has been characterized by important advances in symptomatic care to the muscular patient. In particular, the development of home mechanical ventilation was associated by a substantial improvement in life expectancy. The presence of a muscular disease is less frequently a contra-indication of surgery and subsequently the issue of anesthetizing these patients has become a routine question. A growing number of muscular disorders have been subjected to specific guidelines for anesthetic procedures.