Onset of myasthenia gravis in a patient affected by rheumatoid arthritis never treated with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs

Citation
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
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine
Journal title
PANMINERVA MEDICA
ISSN journal
00310808 → ACNP
Volume
41
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
135 - 137
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-0808(199906)41:2<135:OOMGIA>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
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.