myasthenia crisis is the most dangerous complication of myasthenia gravis. we report one case in which a continuous infusion of pyridostigmine resulted in successful management of myasthenia exacerbation in a 50 year old myasthenic female following thymectomy.

This patient is a 13-year old boy who is the product of intrauterine insemination from a nonconsanguineous marriage. He had a normal prenatal period including normal fetal movements and a reported normal amniocentesis carried out due to advanced maternal age (39year old at the time of pregnancy). He was born at term by vaginal delivery and with normal Apgar score. However, during the neonatal p...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Comorbidity in myasthenia gravis (MG) is important for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Disease complexity was assessed by examining total drug treatment, immune therapy and comorbidity in a complete national MG cohort. METHODS All recipients of the MG-specific drug pyridostigmine 2004-2010 registered in the compulsory Norwegian Prescription Database who met the incl...

BACKGROUND: Rocuronium Bromide is a newer, low potency nondepolarising neuromuscular blocking agent. It is proven to be five to seven times less potent than vecuronium.The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of 2ED95 (2 times effective dose 95) dose (0.6mg/kg) of rocuronium with regard to onset time, the intubating conditions and the duration of action and to compare it w...

The occurrence of acute postoperative respiratory failure in three patients with renal failure is presented. The most likely cause was the return of muscle paralysis after the apparent antagonism of tubocurarine by neostigmine (recurarization). In addition to reducing the dose of tubocurarine, the authors recommend that pyridostigmine be used as an antagonist instead of neostigmine because the ...

The acute toxicity of organophosphorus (OP) compounds in mammals is due to their irreversible inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the nervous system, which leads to increased synaptic acetylcholine levels. The protective actions of intravenously (i.v.) administered pyridostigmine, physostigmine, eptastigmine, and an organophosphate hydrolase, phosphotriesterase, in acute sarin intoxica...