SFEMG in ocular myasthenia gravis diagnosis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1203-1207

  Padua, Luca ^a,b   Stalberg, Erik ^c   Lomonaco, Mauro ^a   Evoli, Amelia ^a   Batocchi, Annapaola ^a   Tonali, Pietro ^a,d  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antiacetylcholine receptor antibody; Edrophonium; Neuromuscular transmission; Neurophysiology; Ocular myasthenia gravis; SFEMG

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIPLOPIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIPLOPIA; EDROPHONIUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034237540     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00307-2     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Bartoccioni E., Scuderi F., Scoppetta C., Tonali P., Guidi L., Bartoloni C., Terranova T. Myasthenia gravis, thymectomy and anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody. J Neurol. 224:1980;9-15.
2. Batocchi A.P., Evoli A., Majolini L., Lo Monaco M., Padua L., Ricci E., Dickman A., Tonali P. Ocular palsies in the absence of other neurological or ocular symptoms: analysis of 106 cases. J Neurol. 244:1997;639-645.
3. Bromberg M.B., Scott D.M. The ad hoc committee of the AAEM single fiber special interest group: single fiber EMG reference values: reformatted in tabular form. Muscle Nerve. 17:1994;820-821.
4. Chu J.Y., Humphrey J.G., Bril V. Correlation of clinical status, single fiber EMG and serum antiacetylcholine receptor antibody in myasthenia gravis. Neurology. 34:1984;161-162.
5. Coll G.E., Demer J.L. The Edrophonium-Hess screen test in the diagnosis of ocular myasthenia gravis. Am J Ophthal. 114:1992;489-493.
6. Cruz-Martinez A., Ferrer M.T., Perez Conde M.C., Tejedor Diez E., Barreiros P., Ribacoba R. Diagnostic yield of single fiber elecôromyography and other electrophysiological techniques in myasthenia gravis: jitter and motor unit fiber density studies. Clinical remission and thymectomy evaluation. Electrom Clin Neurophysiol. 22:1982;395-417.
7. Dirr L.Y., Donofrio P.D., Patton J.F., Troost B.T. A false positive edrophonium test in a patient with brainstem glioma. Neurology. 39:1989;865-867.
8. Ekstedt J., Stalberg E. Single fibre EMG for the study of the microphysiology of the human muscle. Desmedt J.E. New developments in electropmyography and clinical neurophysiology. 1973;Karger, Basel.
9. Evoli A., Tonali P., Bartoccioni E., Lo Monaco M. Ocular myasthenia: diagnostic and therapeutic problems. Acta Neurol Scand. 77:1988;31-35.
10. Evoli A., Batocchi A.P., Lo Monaco M., Servidei S., Padua L., Majolini L., Tonali P. Clinical heterogeneity of seronegative myasthenia gravis. Neuromusc Disord. 3:1996;155-161.
11. Evoli A., Batocchi A.P., Tonali P. A practical guide to the recognition and management of myasthenia gravis. Drugs. 52:1996;662-670.
12. Gilchrist J.M., Massey J.M., Sanders D.B. Single fiber EMG and repetitive stimulation of the same muscle in myasthenia gravis. Muscle Nerve. 17:1994;171-175.
13. Gross P.T. Frontalis muscle single fiber electromyography in the evaluation of suspected myasthenia gravis. Muscle Nerve. 9:1991;915.
14. Keesey J.C. AAEE minimonograph #33: electrodiagnostic approach to defects of neuromuscular transmission. Muscle Nerve. 12:1989;613-626.
15. L'Hevender G., Penisson-Besnier I., Klein J., Dubas F. Myopathie oculaire mitochondriale sensible aux anticholinesterasiques. Presse Med. 22:1993;130.
16. Lindstrom J. An assay for antibodies to human acetylcholin receptor in serum from patients with myasthenia gravis. Clin Immunol Immunopathol. 7:1977;36-43.
17. Milone M., Monaco M.L., Evoli A., Servidei S., Tonali P. Ocular myasthenia: diagnostic value of single fibre EMG in the orbicularis oculi muscle. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 56:(6):1993;720-721.
18. Moorthy G., Behrens M.M., Drachman D.B., Kirkham T.H., Knox D.L., Miller N.R., Slamovitz T.L., Zinreich S.J. Ocular pseudomyasthenia or ocular myasthenia plus. Neurology. 39:1989;1150-1154.
19. Oey P.L., Wieneke G.H., Hoogenraad T.U., van Huffelen A.C. Ocular myasthenia gravis: the diagnostic yield of repetitive nerve stimulation and stimulated single fiber EMG of orbicularis oculi muscle and infrared reflection oculography. Muscle Nerve. 16:1993;142-149.
20. Oh S.J., Cho H.K. Edrophonium responsiveness not necessarily diagnostic of myasthenia gravis. Muscle Nerve. 13:1990;187-191.
21. Oh S.J., Kim D.E., Kuruoglu R., Bradley R.J., Dwyer D. Diagnostic sensitivity of the laboratory tests in myasthenia gravis. Muscle Nerve. 15:1992;720-724.
22. Oosterhuis H.J.G.H. Myasthenia gravis. Clinical neurology and neurosurgery monographs. 1984;Churchill Livingston, Edinburgh.
23. Padua L., Aprile I., Lo Monaco M., Fenicia L., Anniballi F., Pauri F., Tonali P. Neurophysiological assessment in the diagnosis of botulism: usefulness of single-fiber EMG. Muscle Nerve. 22:1999;1388-1392.
24. Rivero A., Crovetto L., Lopez L., Maselli R., Nogués M. Single fiber electromyography of extraocular muscles: a sensitive method for the diagnosis of ocular myasthenia gravis. Muscle Nerve. 18:1995;943-947.
25. Rouseev R., Ashby P., Basinski A., Sharpe J.A. Single-fiber EMG in the frontalis muscle in ocular myasthenia: specificity and sensitivity. Muscle Nerve. 15:1992;399-403.
26. Sanders D.B., Howard J.F. Jr. AAEE minimonograph #25: single-fiber electromyography in myasthenia gravis. Muscle Nerve. 9:1986;809-819.
27. Sanders D.B., Stalberg E.V. AAEM minimonograph #25: single-fiber electromyography. Muscle Nerve. 9:1996;1069-1083.
28. Schwab R.S., Perlo V.P. Syndrome simulating Myasthenia gravis. Ann NY Acad Sci. 135:1966;350-365.
29. Stalberg E. Clinical electrophysiology in myasthenia gravis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 43:1980;622-633.
30. Stalberg E., Sanders D.E. Electrophysiological tests of neuromuscular transmission. Stalberg E., Young R.R. Clinical neurophysiology. 1981;88-116 Butterworths, London.
31. Stalberg E., Trontelj J.V. Single fibre electromyography. 1994;Raven Press, Surrey, UK.
32. Trontelj J.V., Stalberg E. Single fiber electromyography in studies of neuromuscular function. Adv Exp Med Biol. 384:1995;109-119.
33. Ukachoke C., Ashby P., Sharpe J.A. Usefulness of single fiber EMG for distinguishing neuromuscular from other causes of ocular muscle weakness. Can J Neurol Sci. 21:1994;125-128.