Myasthenic Crisis (MC) is a clinical diagnosis defined by respiratory failure in patients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG). As MG symptoms worsen, the weakness of muscles or upper airway can increase so much that it causes difficulty swallowing breathing, resulting distress. One triggers for myasthenic crisis pregnancy. In this case, patient was undergoing second pregnancy gestational age 28-29 week...

We report a 71-year-old woman with concomitant ocular myasthenia gravis and euthyroid Graves' ophthalmopathy. Unilateral ophthalmoplegia, including ptosis, initially was responsive to edrophonium and corticosteroids, except for diplopia on upward gaze, but refractory swelling of the inferior rectus muscle and proptosis followed. Autoantibodies to acetylcholine and thyrotropin receptors were det...

Citation: Zhu K, Chen J, Li J, Wang H, Huang X, Li Y and Feng H (2018) Myasthenia Gravis With Thymoma, Manifesting as AChR-Ab-Positive, Distinct Bulbar Palsy Accompanied by Dysgeusia: A Case Series and Review of Literature. Front. Neurol. 9:214. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00214 Myasthenia Gravis With thymoma, Manifesting as aChR-ab-positive, Distinct Bulbar palsy accompanied by Dysgeusia: a Case s...

The actual incidence of multiple thymoma is unknown and rarely reported because it remains controversial whether the cases represent a disease of multicentric origin or a disease resulting from intrathymic metastasis. In this case, a patient underwent total thymectomy for multiple thymoma with myasthenia gravis via bilateral video-assisted thoracic surgery. A well-encapsulated multinodular cyst...

A 62 years old patient developed myasthenia gravis 2 years after his percutaneous coronary intervention. He was advised thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. During his cardiological evaluation, he was incidentally diagnosed to have 3 vessel disease. Hence, a simultaneous surgical intervention was performed consisting of thymectomy and CABG via standard cardiopulmonary bypass through median sternot...

Here, we present the first case of post-thymectomy Myasthenia Gravis with onset at Osserman stage III. An 81-year-old woman was admitted for an abnormal shadow seen in a chest radiograph. She had no symptoms of Myasthenia Gravis. Acetylcholine receptor antibody was within the normal range. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed a bulky anterior mediastinal tumor. She was diagnosed as having thym...

The HLA antigen distribution was studied in 37 north Indian patients with myasthenia gravis. The control group consisted of 118 normal, healthy individuals of the same ethnic group. The antigens showing the highest frequency were Bw21 (18.9% vs 4.2% p less than 0.005), Bw35 (24.3% vs 6.8%, p less than 0.005) and A9 (51.3% vs 30.5%, p less than 0.025). HLA-B8 was increased nearly two fold in the...

Myasthenia gravis is a disease of great significance to the anesthesiologist, because it affects the neuromuscular junction. Many patients with this condition are treated by surgical thymectomy, using techniques developed by Mount Sinai physicians, including Dr. Paul Kirschner, Dr. Alan E. Kark, and the late Dr. Angelos E. Papatestas. The authors review the anesthetic considerations in the mana...

We report on a patient diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who developed myasthenia gravis while on treatment with nilotinib. Autoimmune disease, including the development of myasthenia gravis, has been described in association with CML as well as the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Second generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors are highly effective in the treatment of CML, although ...