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Myasthenic Crisis In Pregnancy [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2017 This case reviews the management of a 27-year-old pregnant female in myasthenic crisis. She presented to the emergency department in respiratory distress refractory to standard therapy, necessitating airway and ventilatory support and treatment with ...
David M. French +4 more
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Pulmonary Edema in Myasthenic Crisis [PDF]
Case Reports in Critical Care, 2013 We report a previously asymptomatic 50-year-old lady who came with myasthenic crisis as initial presentation of myasthenia gravis. She developed pulmonary edema following intravenous immunoglobulin administration and had ischemic changes in ECG and left ...
Uttara Swati Anand +2 more
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The Neurohospitalist, 2011 Myasthenic crisis is a complication of myasthenia gravis characterized by worsening of muscle weakness, resulting in respiratory failure that requires intubation and mechanical ventilation. Advances in critical care have improved the mortality rate associated with myasthenic crisis.
Linda C, Wendell, Joshua M, Levine
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Occurrence and severity of myasthenic crisis in an unselected Turkish cohort of patients with myasthenia gravis [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a disorder of the neuromuscular junction that can deteriorate into myasthenic crisis, involving weakness of bulbar and respiratory muscles.
Selen Ozyurt Kose +4 more
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The Use of Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Myasthenic Crisis
Türk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2012 Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease of the nicotinic acetylcholin receptors at the postsynaptic membrane of the neuromuscular junction. Myasthenic crisis, defined as respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation is a common life-threatening
Mustafa Said Aydoğan +6 more
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Neurological Research and Practice, 2019 Introduction The overall prevalence of myasthenic crisis is quite low at 30/1 million inhabitants because myasthenia gravis is a rare disease per se. But it should be noted that 15–20% of patients with myasthenia gravis experience at least one crisis in ...
Henning Stetefeld, Michael Schroeter
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2023 Objective To study the influencing factors of myasthenic crisis in non-thymoma myasthenia gravis (MG) patients during perioperative period. Methods We retrospectively analyzed a total of 387 non-thymoma MG patients who underwent extended thymoma ...
Peng Jiao +11 more
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The Spectrum of Autonomic Dysfunction in Myasthenic Crisis
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2018 Background: Autoimmune autonomic dysfunction is described in Myasthenia Gravis. In myasthenic crisis, the spectrum of autonomic dysfunction is hitherto uncharacterized.
Rohit Ninan Benjamin +5 more
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Frequency of myasthenic crisis in relation to thymectomy in generalized myasthenia gravis: A 17-year experience [PDF]
BMC Neurology, 2004 Background Myasthenic crisis is the most serious life-threatening event in generalized myasthenia gravis (MG) patients. The objective of this study was to assess the long-term impact of thymectomy on rate and severity of these attacks in Iranian patients.
Shalmani Hamidreza +5 more
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Eculizumab as Additional Rescue Therapy in Myasthenic Crisis [PDF]
MusclesEculizumab is a monoclonal antibody blocking the terminal complement protein C5. As demonstrated in the phase III randomized, placebo-controlled, REGAIN clinical trial, eculizumab is efficacious in acetylcholine receptor antibody (AChR-Ab)-positive ...
Francesco Crescenzo +8 more
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