P.075 Inflammatory Myositis associated with Myasthenia Gravis with and without thymic pathology: case series and literature review
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Autoantibodies in thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis with myositis or neuromyotonia.
BACKGROUND About 50% of patients with thymoma have paraneoplastic myasthenia gravis (MG). Myositis and myocarditis or neuromyotonia (NMT) will also develop in some. Patients with thymoma-associated MG produce autoantibodies to a variety of neuromuscular antigens, particularly acetylcholine receptor (AChR), titin, skeletal muscle calcium release channel (ryanodine receptor [RyR]), and voltage-ga...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2018.177