Myasthenia gravis

Transient neonatal myasthenia gravis is a human model of passively transferred MG. I a study conducted by Tzartos, S. J., Efthimiadis, A., Morel, E., Eymard, B., & Bach, J. (1990), fine antigenic specificities of anti-AChR antibodies in sera from 21 MG mothers and 17 of their infants were studied (nine of which had transiently transferred the disease). Although in a few cases significant differences in antibody specificities were observed between mothers and infants, whether myasthenic or not,…

for the muscular system I had pit Myasthenia Gravis. Myasthenia Gravis also known as MG was discovered in 1972. Myasthenia Gravis affect the muscle making life difficult for those people who has it. Science thinks that MG cannot be inherited. The diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis test your reflexes, muscle strength, muscle tone, senses of touch, sings coordination and balance. The discovery of the disease depends on the weakness of the muscle. Myasthenia gravis target the communication…

tendons and muscles. The club moss plant components used in Chinese folk medicine are referred to as Qian Ceng Ta. It was, and still is, used to treat strains, swelling, and bruises. During the past century, it has also been used to treat myasthenia gravis, schizophrenia, and organophosphate…

Introduction Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is condition in which there is too much of a protein called monoclonal protein, or M protein, in the blood. MGUS can cause there to be too many cells in your blood and not enough space for healthy cells. This condition increases your risk of cancer. What are the causes? The cause of this condition is not known. What increases the risk? You are more likely to develop this condition if: You are African American. You are 50…

Morgellons disease is an interesting disease that is very rare and often hard to diagnose correctly. This particular disease is very hard to clarify. The symptoms can be different from varying patients. However, general symptoms include crawling senses under the skin, itching, black dots in the skin, thread-like fibers coming from the skin or underneath the skin, joint pain, trouble sleeping, panic attacks, memory loss and skin rashes. Not all patients have these symptoms but the two that almost…

Inclusion Body Myositis is a neuro-muscular disease affecting people over fifty, mostly males, is characterized by progressive muscle weakness and atrophy in key muscles in the arms (forearm flexors) and the legs (quadriceps), resulting in severe disability. IBM is generally a slowly progressive disease and life expectancy isn’t significantly affected. Ted was diagnosed with IBM in 2012 when he was 68 years old, but his muscle biopsy showed that he has had it 10 to 15 years prior to the…

nursing diagnosis of impaired swallowing is appropriate for a patient with both myasthenia gravis (MG) and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Myasthenia gravis is an acquired autoimmune disease (Moore & Shepard, 2014, p. 21). The autoantibody attack, which takes place on the acetylcholine (ACh) receptors of nerve impulses, causing weakness of the voluntary skeletal muscles (Moore & Shepard, 2014, p. 21). Myasthenia Gravis affects approximately 20 in 100,000 people in the United States (Hinkle &…

This prelab was kind of confusing. First we were given a normal case and the information provided explained how sweating in triggered. The way I remember it is that the preganglionic nerve is activated and then will release acetylcholine. This causes the acetylcholine to bind to the nicotine receptors that will cause the receptor to open a channel by changing shape, which allows sodium to flow into the cell. Once full, there is an action potential that that travels down the nerve, which leads to…

receptors (Fambrough et. al, 1973). Since the neurons are not effectively recognizing the acetylcholine, it causes the person suffering with this condition to have impaired movement, or weakness. The name of that condition is called myasthenia gravis. Myasthenia gravis can become especially troublesome if the muscles that control breathing are weakened to a severe extent. Treatment for this condition involves immunosuppressant drugs to reduce the amount…

Muscular System The human body is composed of 640 to 850 muscles each having a different function in helping the muscular system operate. The main function of the muscular system is movement. Muscles help provide strength, endurance, and help to keep the body warm. Muscles help keep the body warm by continuously pumping blood out of the heart and by body movement. There are three main categories of muscles in the human body: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth (non-striated) muscles. One…