background: several concomitant disorders especially thyroid abnormalities have been reported in patients with myasthenia gravis (mg). we aimed to estimate the frequency and pattern of thyroid disorders in iranian patients with mg.all consecutive patients with mg referred to neurology clinic of rasool-e-akram hospital during 2006-2007 were enrolled. methods: all patients underwent clinical asse...

A 79-year-old man with previous bulbar poliomyelitis developed dysphagia and was diagnosed as having post-polio syndrome. Over 2 years, his swallowing deteriorated and he suffered an aspiration pneumonia. Only after the subsequent development of fatigue and facial weakness was myasthenia gravis diagnosed. Diagnostic criteria for post-polio syndrome include the exclusion of all other neurologica...

Twenty-one of 29 patients suffering from myasthenia gravis derived benefit from a short intensive course of adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH). The mean duration of benefit was approximately six months. The best results were obtained in patients with a short history of myasthenia. Transient deterioration during the course of injections was encountered in some cases but necessitated assisted respiratio...

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...

IMPORTANCE Acquired neuromyotonia is increasingly recognized as an autoimmune disorder, frequently associated with antibodies against voltage-gated potassium channel complex proteins.We present a case of acquired neuromyotonia as the heralding symptom of recurrent thymoma in a patient with myasthenia gravis. OBSERVATIONS A report of a single case of a 53-year-old man with myasthenia gravis an...

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...