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Preferred term

Myasthenia Gravis  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A disorder of neuromuscular transmission characterized by fatigable weakness of cranial and skeletal muscles with elevated titers of ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS or muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) autoantibodies. Clinical manifestations may include ocular muscle weakness (fluctuating, asymmetric, external ophthalmoplegia; diplopia; ptosis; and weakness of eye closure) and extraocular fatigable weakness of facial, bulbar, respiratory, and proximal limb muscles. The disease may remain limited to the ocular muscles (ocular myasthenia). THYMOMA is commonly associated with this condition.

In other languages

  • French

  • Myasthénie auto-immune
  • Myasthénie autoimmune

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-SN178LNK-9

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