Myasthenic crisis: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on myasthenic crisis: clinical features: 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 Other features Predictors…

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

Other features

Predictors of post-operative myasthenic crisis (POMC)

References

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