Concept information
Preferred term
Myasthenia Gravis
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Generalized Myasthenia Gravis
- Muscle Specific Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Myasthenia Gravis
- Muscle-Specific Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Myasthenia Gravis
- Myasthenia Gravis, Generalized
- Myasthenia Gravis, Ocular
- Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
Note
- "myasthenia" unqualified in foreign titles is more often MYASTHENIA GRAVIS than MUSCLE WEAKNESS but check text; congenital: consider MYASTHENIC SYNDROMES, CONGENITAL or specifics
Scope note
- A disorder of neuromuscular transmission characterized by fatigable weakness of cranial and skeletal muscles with elevated titers of ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS or muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) autoantibodies. Clinical manifestations may include ocular muscle weakness (fluctuating, asymmetric, external ophthalmoplegia; diplopia; ptosis; and weakness of eye closure) and extraocular fatigable weakness of facial, bulbar, respiratory, and proximal limb muscles. The disease may remain limited to the ocular muscles (ocular myasthenia). THYMOMA is commonly associated with this condition.
In other languages
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Finnish
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myastenia gravis
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009157
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