Appearance of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis following Thymectomy: Two Case Reports

We report two cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in myasthenia gravis (MG) patients who had undergone thymectomy. SLE developed in the patients 3 months or 13 yr after thymectomy, and polyarthritis was the main clinical manifestation of SLE. Both patients fulfilled at least four of the revi...

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Autores principales: Park, Mi-Jeong, Kim, Yun-A, Lee, Shin-Seok, Kim, Byeong-Chae, Kim, Myeong-Kyu, Cho, Ki-Hyun
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2004
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14966356
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2004.19.1.134
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Sumario:We report two cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in myasthenia gravis (MG) patients who had undergone thymectomy. SLE developed in the patients 3 months or 13 yr after thymectomy, and polyarthritis was the main clinical manifestation of SLE. Both patients fulfilled at least four of the revised criteria for the classification of SLE. In this report, we describe two postthymectomy lupus patients and perform a comparative review of previous cases.

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