what is myasthenia gravis symptoms?
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['droopy eyelids.', 'double vision.', 'difficulty making facial expressions.', 'problems chewing and difficulty swallowing.', 'slurred speech.', 'weak arms, legs or neck.', 'shortness of breath and occasionally serious breathing difficulties.']
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['muscle cramps or spasms.', 'numbness and tingling around the mouth.', 'bone and joint pain.', 'weak bones.', 'rash.', 'itchy skin.']
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Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a neuromuscular disorder that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles, which are the muscles your body uses for movement. It occurs when communication between nerve cells and muscles becomes impaired.
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While complications of myasthenia gravis are treatable, some can be life-threatening. Complications may include the following: Myasthenic crisis is a life-threatening condition that affects breathing and requires immediate treatment in order for the person to be able to breathe on their own.
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Neck and limb muscles Myasthenia gravis can also cause weakness in your neck, arms and legs. Weakness in your legs can affect how you walk. Weak neck muscles make it hard to hold up your head.
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There's no cure for myasthenia gravis, but treatment can help relieve signs and symptoms, such as weakness of arm or leg muscles, double vision, drooping eyelids, and difficulties with speech, chewing, swallowing and breathing.
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Deficiencies in acetylcholine can lead to myasthenia gravis, which is characterized by muscle weakness. Too little acetylcholine may also lead to Alzheimer's disease; symptoms include a decline in cognitive abilities and memory loss.
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Finding out that you suffer from m yasthenia gravis can cause great concern in some. The disease is different in every patient. Even a milder form of the disease, so called eye m yasthenia, is very unpleasant, double vision makes orientation worse, causes dizziness, the eyelid drop results in a functional blindness.
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Myasthenia gravis is not a peripheral neuropathy. It is the most common disease of the neuromuscular junction.
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An increased incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been reported in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG). We reviewed records of 214 patients with MG. CNS demyelinating disease (CNSDD) occurred in five patients (2.3%). CNSDD always occurred after the diagnosis of MG.
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Anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies are heterogeneous antibodies that cause loss of muscle function by several mechanisms. Anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies are present in 80%- 90% of the patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and 50-60% of patients with ocular MG.
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Abstract. Myasthenic crisis is a complication of myasthenia gravis characterized by worsening of muscle weakness, resulting in respiratory failure that requires intubation and mechanical ventilation.
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['Vomiting, nausea, and/or diarrhea.', 'Difficulty sleeping, restlessness, anxiety, and/or agitation.', 'Dizziness.', 'Runny nose.', 'Problems with muscle movement including involuntary muscle contractions, inability to stay still, and/or uncontrollable movements.']
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Normally, the amount of acetylcholine available to be released to muscle cells diminishes with repeated, prolonged or strenuous activity. In a person with myasthenia gravis, that normal decrease combined with fewer working receptors causes increasing weakness, or myasthenic fatigue.
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Myasthenia gravis. Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a long-term neuromuscular disease that leads to varying degrees of skeletal muscle weakness. The most commonly affected muscles are those of the eyes, face, and swallowing. It can result in double vision, drooping eyelids, trouble talking, and trouble walking.
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['physical weakness (asthenia)', 'diarrhea.', 'gas (flatulence)', 'symptoms of weakness, muscle pain (myalgia)', 'upper respiratory tract infection.', 'low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)', 'abdominal pain (GI complaints), lactic acidosis (rare)', 'low blood levels of vitamin B-12.']
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The four basic therapies for myasthenia gravis (MG) include symptomatic therapy with an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (pyridostigmine), chronic immunosuppressive therapies, rapid but transient immunomodulatory therapies (plasma exchange and intravenous immune globulin [IVIG]), and thymectomy.