No direct correlation between serum antiacetylcholine receptor antibody levels and clinical state of individual patients with myasthenia gravis
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 31 (2), 220
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.31.2.220
Abstract
Serum acetylcholine receptor antibodies were measured serially in myasthenia gravis patients before and after early extended thymectomy. They received no medication postoperatively. Clinical improvement occurred with little or no change in antibody level. After plasmapheresis without immunosuppressive drug therapy, clinical improvement was found without a decrease in serum antibody level.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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