Autoimmune thyroid disease with myasthenia gravis in a 28-year-old male: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis are both auto-immune diseases and the coexistence of these two diseases is rare but well recognized. Myasthenia gravis is more frequent in patients with thyroid disease. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of 28-year-old male patient hav...

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Autores principales: Masood, Imran, Yasir, Mir, Aiman, Aiffa, Kudyar, R P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184694
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8766
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis are both auto-immune diseases and the coexistence of these two diseases is rare but well recognized. Myasthenia gravis is more frequent in patients with thyroid disease. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of 28-year-old male patient having Auto-immune thyroid disease (Graves' disease) with concomitant myasthenia gravis. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, we report that the coexistence of Myasthenia Gravis with Autoimmune thyroid disease might have prognostic relevance and occurs in a subgroup of myasthenia gravis patients with a mild form of the disease.

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