Prior damage to lower motor neuron triggering myasthenia gravis

Muscle Nerve. 2016 Jun;54(1):167-9. doi: 10.1002/mus.25026.
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Keywords: autoimmune disease; motor neuron; myasthenia gravis; neuromuscular junction; pathogenesis; poliomyelitis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Autoantibodies / immunology
  • Blepharoptosis / etiology
  • Cholinesterase Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Diplopia
  • Dysarthria / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / therapeutic use
  • Immunologic Factors / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Myasthenia Gravis / complications
  • Myasthenia Gravis / epidemiology*
  • Myasthenia Gravis / immunology
  • Myasthenia Gravis / therapy
  • Poliomyelitis / epidemiology*
  • Pyridostigmine Bromide / therapeutic use
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Receptors, Cholinergic / immunology
  • Thymectomy
  • Thymoma / complications
  • Thymoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Thymoma / surgery
  • Thymus Neoplasms / complications
  • Thymus Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Thymus Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Autoantibodies
  • Cholinesterase Inhibitors
  • Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
  • Immunologic Factors
  • Receptors, Cholinergic
  • Pyridostigmine Bromide