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  • Title: [Seronegative myasthenia gravis].
    Author: Gajdos P.
    Journal: Rev Neurol (Paris); 2004 Feb; 160(2):159-62. PubMed ID: 15034472.
    Abstract:
    Six to 20 p.cent of patients with generalized myasthenia gravis and 30 to 50 p.cent of those with ocular myasthenia gravis do not have anti AchR antibodies. Strict clinical, pharmacological and electrophysiological criteria are needed for the diagnosis of sero-negative myasthenia gravis. Sero-negative myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disorder. But thymic hyperplasia is generally absent. Antibodies directed against the muscle receptor of tyrosine kinase (anti MuSK antibodies) were recently demonstrated in 40 to 70 p.cent of patients with sero-negative myasthenia gravis. Sero-negative and sero-positive myasthenia gravis may be clinically very similar. But sero-negative myasthenia gravis may express predominantly severe oculobulbar weakness or mainly neck, shoulder and respiratory muscle weakness. Sero-negative myasthenia gravis is never associated with thymoma. Sero-negative myasthenia gravis responds to immunodulation but perhaps less well than sero-positive myasthenia gravis.
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