Book contents
- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Case 31 Myasthenia Gravis with Acetylcholine Receptor Antibodies (AChR MG)
- Case 32 Myasthenia Gravis with Muscle-Specific Kinase Antibodies (MuSK MG)
- Case 33 Drug-Induced Myasthenia Gravis: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI)-Related
- Case 34 Lambert–Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS)
- Case 35 Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS): Dok7
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Case 31 - Myasthenia Gravis with Acetylcholine Receptor Antibodies (AChR MG)
from Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2024
Book contents
- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Case 31 Myasthenia Gravis with Acetylcholine Receptor Antibodies (AChR MG)
- Case 32 Myasthenia Gravis with Muscle-Specific Kinase Antibodies (MuSK MG)
- Case 33 Drug-Induced Myasthenia Gravis: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI)-Related
- Case 34 Lambert–Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS)
- Case 35 Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS): Dok7
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Summary
A 70-year-old woman was referred by her GP because of progressive nasal speech and difficulties with chewing and swallowing, shortly after abdominal surgery because of a borderline malignant cystoadenofibroma of the uterus. Weeks later, she also noticed drooping of both eyelids and a tendency for her head to drop at the end of a day. In retrospect, mild nasal speech had been present for some months prior to surgery.
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- Neuromuscular DiseaseA Case-Based Approach, pp. 157 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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