Myasthenic crisis: clinical features
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Myasthenic crisis: clinical features. It is the first presentation in a fifth of cases. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Demographic features
- It is the first presentation in a fifth of cases
- It is more frequent in those with thymoma
- It usually develops in the first year of diagnosis
Features of respiratory failure
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Other features
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Predictors of post-operative myasthenic crisis (POMC)
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References
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- Chaudhuri A, Behan PO. Myasthenic crisis. Q J Med 2009; 102:97-107.
- Beydoun SR, Wang J, Levine RL, Farvid A. Emotional stress as a trigger of myasthenic crisis and concomitant takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a case report. J Med Case Rep 2010; 4:393.
- Mayor-Gomez S, Lacruz F, Ezpeleta D. Myasthenic crisis and Takotsubo syndrome: a non-chance relationship. Rev Neurol 2012; 55:725-728.
- Andreev A, Begum F, Singh A, Sahni S. A broken heart: cardiac arrest as the initial presentation of myasthenic crisis. Cureus 2020; 12:e6891.
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