Drug‐refractory myasthenia gravis: Clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcome
[Objective] To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients with refractory myasthenia gravis (MG) and to determine the effectiveness and side effects of the drugs used for their treatment.
Clinical and therapeutic features of myasthenia gravis in adults based on age at onset
[Objective] To describe the characteristics of patients with very-late-onset myasthenia gravis (MG).
Netrin-1 receptor antibodies in thymoma-associated neuromyotonia with myasthenia gravis.
Objective:To identify cell-surface antibodies in patients with neuromyotonia and to describe the main clinical implications.Methods:Sera of 3 patients with thymoma-associated neuromyotonia and myasthenia gravis were used to immunoprecipitate and characterize neuronal cell-surface antigens using reported techniques. The clinical significance of antibodies against precipitated proteins was assessed with sera of 98 patients (neuromyotonia 46, myasthenia gravis 52, thymoma 42; 33 of them with overlapping syndromes) and 219 controls (other neurologic diseases, cancer, and healthy volunteers).Results:Immunoprecipitation studies identified 3 targets, including the Netrin-1 receptors DCC (deleted i…