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Marathons and myasthenia gravis: a case report
BMC Neurology, 2018 Background The cardinal symptoms of auto-immune myasthenia gravis are fatigue and weakness. Endurance events such as marathon running would seem incompatible with this chronic disease. Many patients stop sport altogether.
Simone Birnbaum +5 more
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Miasthenia gravis in pediatric age
Acta Médica del Centro, 2008 Background: Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disorder characterized by fluctuating muscle weakness and fatigue of different muscle groups, secondary to a synaptic transmission alteration caused by the blockade and destruction of the acetylcholine ...
Liubka María Pérez Mederos +3 more
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, 2018 Pure ocular myasthenia was always described as a separate entity in historical publications. More than 50% of patients develop generalized symptoms in the course of the disease.
Sophie Schötz +2 more
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Comitant Ocular Deviation in Myasthenia Gravis
, 2021 Occurrence of comitant ocular deviation in myasthenia gravis (MG) is not well ...
Tiffany Pike-Lee, MD; Jeremy Hill, MD; Jianbo Li, PhD; Gregory S. Kosmorsky, DO; Yuebing Li, MD, PhD
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Anaesthetic Management of Myasthenia Gravis with Thymic Mass in Facial Trauma [PDF]
, 2010 Myasthenia gravis is an immunologic disorder characterised by polyclonal antibodies directed against nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at postneuromuscular junction.
Dheer Singh, Deepak Sharma
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Comparison of diagnostic tests in myasthenia gravis
, 1983 Results of 3 tests, intravenous edrophonium chloride, EMG, and acetylcholine receptor antibody testing, were compared in patients with generalised and ocular myasthenia gravis.
Nicholson, G. A. +2 more
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An Atypical Case of Myasthenia Gravis: Purely Bulbar in a Young Male
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020 Myasthenia Gravis (MG), an uncommon autoimmune syndrome caused by the failure of neuromuscular transmission, results from bind- ing of autoantibodies to proteins that are involved in signaling at the neuromuscular junction (1).
Muhammad Amer Saleem +3 more
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The Anti-Acetylcholine Receptor Antibody Test in Suspected Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014 Aim. To estimate the clinical significance of anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody (anti-AChR-Ab) levels in suspected ocular myasthenia gravis. Methods. In total, 144 patients complaining of fluctuating diplopia and ptosis were evaluated for serum levels
Jung Jin Lee +2 more
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Ocular Myasthenia Gravis: Controversies and Updates
Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2013 The majority of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) initially present with ocular symptoms. An unresolved question is whether there are clinical features at onset to guide clinicians to predict an individual patient's conversion risk from ocular MG (OMG) to generalized disease, or "secondary generalized MG" (SGMG), that is, a prognostic model.
Wong, S, Huda, S, Vincent, A, Plant, G
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