The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review

The co-existence of facioscapulohumeral muscle dystrophy (FSHD) and myasthenia gravis (MG) is very rare and few cases have been described in the literature. To increase the awareness of the health care providers, we present herein a rare case of MG in a patient with FSHD, discuss the diagnostic chal...

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Autores principales: Nauman, Feryal, Hussain, Muhammad Fawwad Ahmed, Burakgazi, Ahmet Z.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6763750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31579125
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8191
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description The co-existence of facioscapulohumeral muscle dystrophy (FSHD) and myasthenia gravis (MG) is very rare and few cases have been described in the literature. To increase the awareness of the health care providers, we present herein a rare case of MG in a patient with FSHD, discuss the diagnostic challenges, pre- and post-treatment findings and provide a literature review.
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spelling pubmed-67637502019-10-02 The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review Nauman, Feryal Hussain, Muhammad Fawwad Ahmed Burakgazi, Ahmet Z. Neurol Int Case Report The co-existence of facioscapulohumeral muscle dystrophy (FSHD) and myasthenia gravis (MG) is very rare and few cases have been described in the literature. To increase the awareness of the health care providers, we present herein a rare case of MG in a patient with FSHD, discuss the diagnostic challenges, pre- and post-treatment findings and provide a literature review. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6763750/ /pubmed/31579125 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8191 Text en ©Copyright: the Author(s), 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review
title The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review
title_full The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review
title_fullStr The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review
title_short The development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review
title_sort development of myasthenia gravis in a patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: case report and literature review
topic Case Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8191
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