Do you perform EMG and repetitive nerve stimulation in patients with ocular myasthenia gravis, particularly those who are AChR-positive, to assess for electrophysiological evidence of generalized disease?
If repetitive nerve stimulation is abnormal beyond the facial nerve, but the patient exhibits only ocular or eyelid weakness clinically, do you consider the patient to have "generalized" myasthenia gravis?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
There is already quite some literature about this question. I have included a recent reference that identified the predictors of generalization of ocular MG in 122 patients evaluated over 24 years in Malaysia. To summarize, in multivariate analysis, positive anti-AChR antibodies, positive RNS (OR 4....
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at White Plains Hospital Physicians Associates Yes, I do recall a discussion at the last AANEM wh...
The question is, do patients with ocular MG have electrodiagnostic evidence of abnormal neuromuscular transmission in limb muscles? The answer is, yes. Thus, the definition of Ocular MG is based on the clinical findings, not the electrodiagnostic findings.In our experience, the majority of patients ...
Yes, I do recall a discussion at the last AANEM wh...