Clinical Profile of Myasthenia Gravis

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 933-936

  Saha, S P ^a   Mukherjee, S ^a   Das, S K ^a   Ganguly, P K ^a   Roy, T N ^a   Maiti, B ^a   Bhattacharya, S ^a   Sarkar, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; EDROPHONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; EDROPHONIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 0032195340     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Grob D, Nambat, et al The natural course of myasthenia gravis and the effect of the therapeutic measures. Ann NY Acad Sciences 1981; 377 : 652-9.
2. Osserman KE, Genkins G. Studies in MG : Review of a twenty years experience in over 1200 patients, Mt, Sinai. J Med NY 1971; 38 : 497-537.
3. Ahuja GK, Mohandas S, Behari M. Myasthenia gravis experience with 70 patients. Neurol India 1983; 31 : 15-23.
4. Kayal A, Chopra JS, Prabhakar S, et al. Myasthenia gravis, clinical profile and response to thymectomy. Neurol India 1985; 33 : 265-71.
5. Oosterhius HSGH. Natural course of myasthenia gravis. J Meurol Neurosurg Psychi 1989; 52 : 1121-7.
6. Simpson JA. Myasthenia gravis : a new hypothesis. Scottish Medical Journal 1960; 5 : 419.
7. Nastuk WL, Plescia OJ, Osserman KE. Changes in scrum complement activity in patients with myasthenia gravis. Proceedings of the society for experimental Biology and Medicine. 1960; 105: 177.
8. Lindstrom J. An assay for antibodies to human acetylcholine receptor in serum from patients with myasthenia gravis. Clinical Immunol Immunopathol 1977; 7 : 36.
9. Cohen HS, Younger D. Aspects of the natural history of myasthenia gravis : crisis and death. Ann New York Acad Sciences 1981; 377 : 670-7.
10. Namba T, Brunner NG, Brown SB, et al. Familial myasthenia gravis, Arch Neurol (Chicago) 1971; 25 : 49-50.
11. Simpson JA. Myasthenia gravis and myasthenic syndromes. In disorders of voluntary muscle, Fourth edition, Ed walten J Churchill Livingston. Edinburgh. 1981; 585-624.
12. Penn AS, Rowland LP. Myasthenia gravis. In Rowland LP, ed, Merrit's textbook of neurology. Philadelphia : Williams and Wilkins. 1995; 754-61.
13. 7.
14. Lovelace RE, Younger DS. Myasthenia gravis with thymoma. Neurology 1997: 48 (Suppl 5) : S76 - S81.
15. Castleman B, Norris EH. Pathology of the thymus gland in myasthenia gravis. Medicine 1949: 27-58.
16. Viets HR, Schwab RS. Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Springfield IL Thomas CC 1960: 597-607.
17. Myasthenia Gravis in Principles of Neurology. 5th edition. Ed. Adams and Victor. McGraw Hill Inc. International edition. 1993; 1252-61.
18. Mulder DG, Graver M, Herrman C, Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis : recent observations and comparisons with past experiences. Ann Thorac Surg 1989; 48 : 557.