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What have you been using in place of tensilon test as a pharmacologic challenge for myasthenia gravis diagnosis?

E.g., IM neostigmine, oral pyridostigmine challenge?
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Neurology · University of Minnesota
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We rarely do pharmacological challenges for MG diagnosis nowadays, especially after edrophonium was withdrawn from the market. One may do an oral pyridostigmine challenge, but I only do it nowadays in stable outpatients, with high suspicion for ocular or mild generalized myasthenia with ocular sympt...

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