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Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis
Introduction While thymectomy has long been considered an option to treat myasthenia even if there is simply thymic tissue present rather than thymoma or thymic carcinoma, it has been uncertain how much benefit is achieved by undergoing this major … Continue reading
Anti K+ Channel Antibodies in Neuromyotonia
Background At this Journal Club it was decided to review a historical paper on the pathophysiology underlying autoimmune neuromyotonia. The paper, “Autoantibodies Detected to Expressed K+ Channels Are Implicated in Neuromyotonia”, from Annals of Neurology (1997, 41:238-246), used a novel … Continue reading
Posted in Inflammatory/ Auto-Immune Diseases
Tagged Antibody Assay, Autoimmune, Immunology, Neuromytonia
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