Vocabulary
A disease in which the body's immune system attacks healthy cells
What is autoimmune disease?
Gender diagnosed at a younger age
What is women?
An autoimmune disease that occurs at the neuromuscular junction
What is myasthenia gravis?
Primary focus for intervention
What is muscle weakness and fatigue?
Cure for MG
What is no cure?
A signaling molecule secreted by a neuron to affect another cell across a synapse
What is neurotransmitter?
Percentage of MG diagnosed in patients under the age of 18
What is about 10%?
Common symptoms of neuromuscular junction dysfunction
What is muscular weakness and fatigue?
Reasonable workplace accommodations
What is increasing rest breaks? (OT's can help advocate)
The electrical signal causes contraction in the muscles
What is action potential?
Abnormal low-lying or drooping upper eyelid
What is ptosis?
Average global incidence of MG
What is 12.4 people per 100,000?
The most common areas of muscular weakness
What are facial and oral muscles?
Lid crutches and eye patches are an example of...
What are assistive devices?
The surgical removal of the thymus gland
What is thymectomy?
A type of chemical messenger, or neurotransmitter, that plays a vital role in the central and peripheral nervous system
What is acetylcholine?
Where MuSK-associated MG is more prevalent
What is latitudes closer to the equator?
The primary neurotransmitter that provides communication between nerve endings and muscle fibers
What is acetylcholine?
How OT's can influence workplace accommodations
What is advocacy?
A type of drug that can be used to help treat MG
What is acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors?
A blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen
What is antibody?
Black patients are more likely to experience this than white patients
What is treatment resistant ophthalmoplegia and ptosis?
The main cause of a majority of MG cases
What is the blocking of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) by autoantibodies?
An occupation that is a top priority for people with MG
What is employment?
The microscopic area of the body where nerve endings communicate with muscle fibers
What is neuromuscular junction?