A pregnant patient with anti-MuSK antibody positive myasthenia gravis and her infant with transient neonatal myasthenia gravis

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 188-191

  Kanzaki, Akihiro ^a   Motomura, Masakatsu ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti MuSK antibodies; Myasthenia gravis; Parturition; Pregnancy; Transient neonatal myasthenia gravis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MUSK ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; DYSPHAGIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; SPEECH DISORDER; TRANSIENT NEONATAL MYSATHENIA GRAVIS;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS, NEONATAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 79956313485     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.51.188     Document Type: Article

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