AchR-positive myasthenia gravis with MRI evidence of early muscle atrophy.

Vasiliki Zouvelou, Michael Rentzos, Panagiotis Toulas, Ioannis Evdokimidis

Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, University of Athens, 74 Vas. Sophias Avenue, Athens11528, Greece. vzouvelu@med.uoa.gr

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2012 Jun

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Muscle atrophy, when it occurs in myasthenia gravis (MG), is usually associated with long-standing disease or with chronic corticosteroid treatment. Early muscle atrophy in a steroid-naive patient has been reported previously only in muscle-specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK)-MG. We report a 63-year-old male patient with acetylcholine receptor (AchR)-positive MG with a short duration of disease, no steroid treatment and MRI evidence of muscle atrophy. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Vasiliki Zouvelou, Michael Rentzos, Panagiotis Toulas, Ioannis Evdokimidis. AchR-positive myasthenia gravis with MRI evidence of early muscle atrophy. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 2012 Jun;19(6):918-9