COVID-19 Presentation in Association with Myasthenia Gravis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Currently, there are scarce data on how COVID-19 affects people with myasthenia gravis. Theoretically, there is a higher risk of experiencing severe manifestations of COVID-19 due to the common use of immunosuppressive drugs and potential respiratory failure in relation to respiratory muscle weaknes...

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Autores principales: Aksoy, Elif, Oztutgan, Turgut
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7436352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8845844
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description Currently, there are scarce data on how COVID-19 affects people with myasthenia gravis. Theoretically, there is a higher risk of experiencing severe manifestations of COVID-19 due to the common use of immunosuppressive drugs and potential respiratory failure in relation to respiratory muscle weakness. This is one of the early cases of COVID-19 reported in association with myasthenia gravis. Here, we highlight the prognosis, discuss the pathophysiological mechanisms, and prompt the consideration of convalescent plasma therapy in myasthenia gravis patients with concomitant COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-74363522020-08-25 COVID-19 Presentation in Association with Myasthenia Gravis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Aksoy, Elif Oztutgan, Turgut Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Currently, there are scarce data on how COVID-19 affects people with myasthenia gravis. Theoretically, there is a higher risk of experiencing severe manifestations of COVID-19 due to the common use of immunosuppressive drugs and potential respiratory failure in relation to respiratory muscle weakness. This is one of the early cases of COVID-19 reported in association with myasthenia gravis. Here, we highlight the prognosis, discuss the pathophysiological mechanisms, and prompt the consideration of convalescent plasma therapy in myasthenia gravis patients with concomitant COVID-19. Hindawi 2020-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7436352/ /pubmed/32850160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8845844 Text en Copyright © 2020 Elif Aksoy and Turgut Oztutgan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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