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Myasthenia Gravis Summary
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Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness. MG affects the neuromuscular junction, interrupting the communication between nerve and muscle, and thereby causing weakness. A person with MG may have difficulty moving their...
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Myasthenia Gravis : Biological Psychology
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Relapsing muscular weakness due to autoimmune inflammatory damage to CHOLINERGIC receptors at the NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION. The onset is marked by muscular fatigue (‘myasthenia’) and drooping eyelids, especially following exertion. The...
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Myasthenia gravis Information
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Myasthenia gravis (literally "serious muscle-weakness"; from Greek μύς "muscle", ἀσθένεια "weakness", and Latin gravis "serious"; abbreviated MG) is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. It is an...


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Neurology India
Myasthenia gravis associated with fibrous histiocytoma
04/01/2005: 635 words, approx. 2 pages
Sir, Association of myasthenia gravis with extrathymic malignancies, especially leukemia, reticuloendothelial, and solid tissue malignancy, has been described, abeit rarely. [1 ],[2 ],[3 ] In a series of 296 thymectomized myasthenic cases, only 5 patients had extrathymic fibrous histiocytoma and extrathymic malignancies were...
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Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The ProSeal laryngeal mask in myasthenia gravis
10/01/2002: 2,768 words, approx. 9 pages
SUMMARY This case describes the anaesthesia management of a patient with myasthenia gravis who required mastectomy with axillary lymph node clearance. After withholding medical therapy for the myasthenia preoperatively on the day of surgery, anaesthesia was maintained with halothane, nitrous oxide and a...
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AP Features
FDA restricts use of Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic
2/12/2007: 453 words, approx. 2 pages
The government on Monday restricted an antibiotic linked to rare reports of severe liver problems including several deaths, saying the drug should be used only to treat pneumonia and not less serious illnesses.The Food and Drug Administration said the antibiotic, Ketek, would remain on the...
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Antibiotic Label to Warn of Liver Danger
7/3/2006: 647 words, approx. 2 pages
The label of a novel antibiotic will be updated to reflect reports of severe liver problems, including several deaths, associated with its use, the drug's maker and health officials said Thursday. Sanofi-Aventis' Ketek will carry a bold-type warning about the...
 


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Myasthenia Gravis
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Describes a family's struggle to get over a loved ones illness. Provides details on the illness, Myasthenia Gravis.


 

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