ArticleCureus2020
Myasthenia Gravis with Elderly Onset at Advanced Age.
Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effects of respiratory muscle training on respiratory function and functional outcomes in patients with myasthenia gravis: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Trends in hospitalisation, myasthenic crisis and intensive care use in myasthenia gravis: a nationwide population-based study in Spain (2016-2022).Neurological research and practice · 2026Article
- Nomogram for predicting pregnancy-related relapse of myasthenia gravis.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2024Article
- Unilateral Ptosis in a 72-Year-Old Male: Early Diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis Using the Ice Pack Test.Cureus · 2024Article
- The impact of diagnosis delay on European patients with generalised myasthenia gravis.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
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- Occurrence and severity of myasthenic crisis in an unselected Turkish cohort of patients with myasthenia gravis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Seronegative Ocular Myasthenia Gravis in an Older Woman With Transient Dizziness and Diplopia.Cureus · 2022Article
- Isolated dysarthria as the sole manifestation of myasthenia gravis: a case report.The Journal of international medical research · 2022Review
- Trauma-induced myasthenia gravis: coincidence or causal relationship?BMJ case reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Myasthenia gravis (MG) in older adults has not been extensively studied. The prevalence of this disease in older people seems to be higher in recent epidemiological studies. In patients with disease onset after the age of 70, the diagnosis is more difficult as other conditions are more easily taken to be the causal element. The mortality is higher than in young patients, so prompt specific treatment can improve prognosis. We present an 85-year-old female patient with speech disturbance and difficulty in swallowing solids, and neurological examination with palpebral ptosis, disphonia, convergent strabismus and weakness and mild progressive fatigue in arms, with electroneuromyography and acetylcholine receptor antibody who was diagnosed with MG, emphasizing the importance of this entity in geriatric patients.
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