Fetal acetylcholine receptor inactivation syndrome: A myopathy due to maternal antibodies

Neurology: Neuroimmunology and NeuroInflammation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hacohen, Yael ^a,b   Jacobson, Leslie W ^b   Byrne, Susan ^a   Norwood, Fiona ^c   Lall, Abhimanu ^h   Robb, Stephanie ^e   Dilena, Robertino ^f   Fumagalli, Monica ^f   Born, Alfred Peter ^g   Clarke, Debbie ^a   Lim, Ming ^a   Vincent, Angela ^b,c   Jungbluth, Heinz ^a,c,d  

^a EVELINA LONDON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NEOSTIGMINE; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; FEEDING DIFFICULTY; FEMALE; FETAL ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR INACTIVATION SYNDROME; FETUS DISEASE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL TREATMENT; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOPATHY; NASAL SPEECH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS STENOSIS;

EID: 84956985051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23327812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000000057     Document Type: Article

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