Pseudomyopia as a presenting sign in ocular myasthenia gravis.

A Case Report of Congenital Myasthenia Gravis Presenting With Respiratory Distress

Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS) are rare inherited disorders characterized by dysfunction of neuromuscular transmission at the neuromuscular junction. Most patients with congenital myasthenic syndromes present in the infancy. Major symptoms of affected individuals include weakness and fatigue during the first years of life. Patients may show hypotonia, facial weakness, swallowing difficul...

A case of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy presented with unilateral ptosis

  Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy is an autoimmune disease with progressive and relapsing courses. The main clinical presentations are diffuse deep tendon hyporeflexia or areflexia and symmetric proximal-distal muscles weakness. Myasthenia gravis is also an immune mediated disease with fluctuating ocular and bulbar symptoms and sometimes weakness. Although both myasthenia grav...

myasthenia gravis: effects of treatment Ocular motor dysfunction and ptosis in ocular

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Anti-MuSK myasthenia gravis presenting with purely ocular findings.

BACKGROUND Antibodies to a muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) have been found in approximately 40% of patients with generalized myasthenia gravis who are seronegative for the antiacetylcholine receptor antibody. Many of the patients with anti-MuSK antibodies have prominent oculobulbar symptoms or weakness of the neck and respiratory muscles, but patients with ocular myasthenia have...

Alternating IV nerve palsy and ptosis as a first sign of childhood ocular myasthenia gravis.