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Monitoring of a person with MG is very important, as at least 20% of people diagnosed with it will experience a myasthenic crisis within two years of their diagnosis, requiring rapid medical intervention. [97] Generally, the most disabling period of MG might be years after the initial diagnosis. [95]
A tensilon test, also called an edrophonium test, is a pharmacological test used for the diagnosis of certain neural diseases, especially myasthenia gravis. [1] It is also used to distinguish a myasthenic crisis from a cholinergic crisis in individuals undergoing treatment for myasthenia gravis.
Transient neonatal myasthenia gravis; Specialty: Pediatrics, Pediatric neurology, Pediatric pulmonology, Pediatric intensive care medicine: Symptoms: skeletal muscles weaknesses and, in rare cases. organ deformities in one or more areas of the body in fetuses and newborns
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), is similar to myasthenia gravis in that it is an autoimmune disease. However, in LEMS the neuron is unable to release enough acetylcholine for normal muscle function due to autoantibodies attacking P/Q-type calcium channel that are necessary for acetylcholine release.
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Congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS) is an inherited neuromuscular disorder caused by defects of several types at the neuromuscular junction. The effects of the disease are similar to Lambert-Eaton Syndrome and myasthenia gravis , the difference being that CMS is not an autoimmune disorder .
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