S. Coaccioli et al., Onset of myasthenia gravis in a patient affected by rheumatoid arthritis never treated with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs, PANMIN MED, 41(2), 1999, pp. 135-137
We describe a patient affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that developed
myasthenia gravis (MG) after 20 years of illness. The peculiarity of this c
ase concerns both the rare association between these diseases and the fact
that the patients had never assumed disease modifying antirheumatic drugs.
These treatments have been associated in some clinical reports with the ons
et of MG during the clinical course of RA. To our knowledge this is the fir
st case described in medical literature up to now.