S7-4. Clinical characteristics of patients with juvenile childhood-onset myasthenia gravis
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Clinical Characteristics of Refractory Myasthenia Gravis Patients
BACKGROUND A subset of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients is refractory to standard therapies. Identifying the characteristics of this population is essential as newer treatment strategies emerge that may be more effective in this group. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study is to describe the clinical features of refractory MG patients and compare them to those of non-refractory patients. METHODS A ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Neurophysiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1388-2457
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.06.100