About 15% of all myasthenia gravis patients are found to have a thymoma, a tumor of the thymus. Although most thymomas are benign (not cancerous), the thymus is usually removed (thymectomy) to ...

If you have myasthenia gravis, muscle strength will decrease predictably over the course of testing. You may be given certain medications – edrophonium or neostigmine – as part of the exam.

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue," says Hesterlee. It occurs "when a person’s immune system is essentially ...

Myasthenia gravis is a rare neuromuscular disorder that causes skeletal muscle weakness. Learn about symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and more.

In myasthenia gravis, the voluntary muscles become weak, causing the eyelids to droop, among other problems. It is often mild, but a crisis can be serious. Medical News Today ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Should patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) continue to undergo the traditional therapy of immunosuppression with drugs like corticosteroids and nonsteroidal agents? Or is it ...

Myasthenia gravis with hyperthyroidism and exophthalmic goiter has been reported. Eaton is quoted by McEachern and Parnell 2 as stating that 6 per cent of myasthenic patients studied at the Mayo ...

C.P. (P.H. 21–57–81) was 40 years old in 1954, when she began to have ptosis, diplopia, dysarthria, dysphagia and difficulty chewing. She was often unable to raise her arms to comb her hair.