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Myasthenia gravis and COVID‐19: A case series and comparison with literature by Zakaria Saied; Amine Rachdi; Saber Thamlaoui; Fatma Nabli; Cyrine Jeridi; Nader Baffoun; Chokri Kaddour; Samir Belal; Samia Ben Sassi is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Objective: To describe presenting symptoms, clinical outcomes, and therapeutic management of concurrent coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) infections in patients with a pre-existing myasthenia gravis (mg). ## Methods: We conducted a retrospective study in patients with preexisting mg presenting with concurrent covid-19 between september 21st and november 4th, 2020 when attending the emergency department or routine neurology consultation at the national institute mongi ben hamida of neurology of tunis, tunisia. ## Results: Five patients were identified. the myasthenia gravis foundation of america scores (mgfa) prior to covid-19 infection were class i in one patient, class ii (iia, iib) in two patients, and class iiib in one patient. four patients had mild to moderate courses of covid-19 infection. one patient presented a critical infection with acute respiratory disease syndrome (ards) requiring mechanical ventilation. two of them also demonstrated signs of mg exacerbation requiring the use of intravenous immunoglobulin in one case. we maintained immunosuppressant therapy to mg in all our patients. all our patients received azithromycin (azm) as a part of specific drug treatment

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Author

Zakaria Saied; Amine Rachdi; Saber Thamlaoui; Fatma Nabli; Cyrine Jeridi; Nader Baffoun; Chokri Kaddour; Samir Belal; Samia Ben Sassi

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)