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New acute onset of ocular myasthenia gravis after COVID-19 vaccine: A case report

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2023
Reports have shown the association of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with several neuromuscular disorders. Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease in which antibodies bind to acetyl choline receptors in the postsynaptic membrane at the ...
Himani T. Chaturvedi, Varsha Patel, Rahul Vasava, Chandrashekher Chaturvedi   +3 more
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Antibodies to acetylcholine receptor in parous women with myasthenia: evidence for immunization by fetal antigen [PDF]

, 2002
The weakness in myasthenia gravis (MG) is mediated by autoantibodies against adult muscle acetylcholine receptors (AChR) at the neuromuscular junction; most of these antibodies also bind to fetal AChR, which is present in the thymus.
Wilcox, Nick, Matthews, I, Stott, David, Ledwidge, S, Vincent, Angela, Willcox, N, Beeson, David, Vincent, A, Sims, G, Stott, D, Matthews, Ian, Sims, Gary, Ledwidge, Serena, Beeson, D   +13 more
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Off-center presentation of ocular myasthenia

Kerala Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition with varied presentations. In this, we report a 70 years old diabetic male who came complaining of diplopia.
Mary A Stephen, P Jayasri, P J Harigaravelu   +2 more
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Fatigue and Muscle Atrophy in a Mouse Model of Myasthenia Gravis Is Paralleled by Loss of Sarcolemmal nNOS [PDF]

, 2012
Myasthenia Gravis (MG) patients suffer from chronic fatigue of skeletal muscles, even after initiation of proper immunosuppressive medication. Since the localization of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) at the muscle membrane is important for ...
Meinen, Sarina, Sarina Meinen, Shuo Lin, Lin, Shuo, Rüegg, Markus A., Markus A Rüegg, Punga, Anna Rostedt, Anna Rostedt Punga   +7 more
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Diplopia in a patient presenting with “blurred vision”: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition affecting the neuromuscular junction and causing muscle weakness along with fatigue (myasthenia).
Anil Harrison, Onkar Mudhar, Jun Yoo, Mayank Rampal   +3 more
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Quality of life in purely ocular myasthenia in Japan [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Since there has been no conclusive evidence regarding the treatment of ocular myasthenia, treatment guidelines were recently issued by the European Federation of Neurological Societies/European Neurological Society (EFNS/ENS).
Murai, Hiroyuki, Shigeaki Suzuki, Motomura, Masakatsu, Emiko Tsuda, Shunya Nakane, Nagane, Yuriko, Masuda, Masayuki, Shingo Konno, Suzuki, Shigeaki, Tsuda, Emiko, Konno, Shingo, Hiroyuki Murai, Imai, Tomihiro, Suzuki, Norihiro, Tomihiro Imai, Oji, Satoru, Nakane, Shunya, Yuriko Nagane, Norihiro Suzuki, Utsugisawa, Kimiaki, Satoru Oji, Masayuki Masuda, Masakatsu Motomura, Kimiaki Utsugisawa   +23 more
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Consistent improvement with eculizumab across muscle groups in myasthenia gravis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2020
Objective To assess whether eculizumab, a terminal complement inhibitor, improves patient‐ and physician‐reported outcomes (evaluated using the myasthenia gravis activities of daily living profile and the quantitative myasthenia gravis scale ...
Renato Mantegazza, Fanny L. O'Brien, Marcus Yountz, James F. Howard Jr, for the REGAIN study group   +4 more
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SARS-CoV-2 in pre-existing autoimmune myasthenia gravis: An institutional experience [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2021
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 on pre-existing chronic neuromuscular junction disorders like myasthenia gravis (MG) is not known. We report three patients with pre-existing acetylcholine receptor autoantibody-positive myasthenia gravis who were infected with ...
Nitisha Goyal, Rahul Jain, Dinesh Chouksey, Ajoy Sodani   +3 more
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Rare concurrent ocular myasthenia gravis and Graves’ ophthalmopathy in a man with Poland syndrome: a case report

BMC Neurology, 2020
Background Ocular myasthenia gravis and Graves’ ophthalmopathy are autoimmune diseases that are mediated by membrane receptors and share many identical clinical processes.
Jingqun Tang, Chao Qin
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Application of the Technique of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Patient With Respiratory Distress Syndrome Associated With Myasthenia Gravis

Неотложная медицинская помощь, 2021
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by pathologically rapid fatigue of striated muscles [1]. The main symptom of myasthenia gravis is the presence of pathological muscle weakness with involvement of the ocular, bulbar ...
N. M. Kruglyakov, D. G. Levitova, G. I. Bagzhanov, K. K. Gubarev, S. S. Ochkin, O. V. Parinov, S. S. Petrikov, K. A. Popugaev, A. S. Samoilov   +8 more
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