Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Myasthenia Gravis—A Report of Three New Cases and Review of the Literature

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD)have increasing incidence, due to lifespan expansion. The association between PD and Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is uncommon, and so far, since 1987, 26 cases have been reported. We report here a series of three new cases, two men and one woman w...

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Autores principales: Odajiu, Irina, Davidescu, Eugenia Irene, Mitu, Cristina, Popescu, Bogdan Ovidiu
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7022960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31878081
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina56010005
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description Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD)have increasing incidence, due to lifespan expansion. The association between PD and Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is uncommon, and so far, since 1987, 26 cases have been reported. We report here a series of three new cases, two men and one woman with this peculiar combination of conditions, identified in the Neurology Department of Colentina Clinical Hospital. In this article, the pathogenesis of MG in patients with PD is discussed, along with a literature review regarding the co-occurrence of these two neurological diseases.
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spelling pubmed-70229602020-03-12 Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Myasthenia Gravis—A Report of Three New Cases and Review of the Literature Odajiu, Irina Davidescu, Eugenia Irene Mitu, Cristina Popescu, Bogdan Ovidiu Medicina (Kaunas) Review Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD)have increasing incidence, due to lifespan expansion. The association between PD and Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is uncommon, and so far, since 1987, 26 cases have been reported. We report here a series of three new cases, two men and one woman with this peculiar combination of conditions, identified in the Neurology Department of Colentina Clinical Hospital. In this article, the pathogenesis of MG in patients with PD is discussed, along with a literature review regarding the co-occurrence of these two neurological diseases. MDPI 2019-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7022960/ /pubmed/31878081 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina56010005 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Myasthenia Gravis—A Report of Three New Cases and Review of the Literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7022960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31878081
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina56010005
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