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A Patient with Fulminant Myasthenia Gravis Is Seropositive for Both AChR and LRP4 Antibodies, Complicated by Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type 3
- Source :
- Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan). 59(17)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
-
Abstract
- This article describes the first reported case of myasthenia gravis (MG) seropositive for both acetylcholine receptor antibody and low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 4 antibody, complicated by autoimmune polyglandular syndrome (APS) type 3. The patient exhibited myasthenic weakness restricted to the ocular muscles and ptosis. Severe clinical deterioration ensued with predominant bulbar symptoms. MG rapidly worsened, the patient was intubated, and agranulocytosis due to thiamazole was also present, so it was necessary to perform thyroidectomy with tracheostomy and thymectomy in two phases. Both the double-seropositive MG and the APS were involved in the patient's rapid deterioration.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
Fulminant
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Gastroenterology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Ptosis
Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome
Internal medicine
Myasthenia Gravis
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Receptors, Cholinergic
Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune
LDL-Receptor Related Proteins
Acetylcholine receptor
Aged
Autoantibodies
biology
business.industry
Thyroidectomy
Infant
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Myasthenia gravis
Thymectomy
biology.protein
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Female
medicine.symptom
Antibody
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13497235
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c034b90e9084e98fe24aa6f16391c908