Treatment Standards and Individualized Therapy of Myasthenia Gravis
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[Myasthenia gravis--current treatment standards and emerging drugs].
Myasthenia gravis is very rare autoimmune disease of neuromuscular junction, which presents as a weakness and increased fatiquability of striated muscles. Formerly, myasthenia was largely constraining disease and often ended by death. Recently, advanced diagnostic methods and variety of therapeutic options allow the full compensation of the disease and the quality of patient life is restored. I...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology International Open
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2511-1795
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-124983