History
In what century was Myasthenia Gravis first described in medical reports?
What is the 1600s (1672)?
What muscles does MG affect: your voluntary muscles or involuntary muscles?
What is your voluntary muscles?
What muscles are involved in drooping eyelids and double vision symptoms?
What are the eye muscles?
Removing what gland (in a surgery called thymectomy) helps reduce MG symptoms in patients
What is a thymus gland?
The name, ¨Myasthenia Gravis," means what?
What is Grave muscle weakness?
Does Mg have a cure
What is MG does not have a cure?
Weakness in these muscles can cause trouble speaking, chewing, or swallowing, even slurred speech
What are the facial and throat muscles?
What IV treatment reduces the immune system's attack on muscle receptors
What is Immunoglobulin?
This term describes diseases where the immune system mistakenly attacks the body
What is autoimmune?
Mg is not the type of disease that spreads from one person to person
What is contagious?
This life-threatening emergency happens when breathing muscles become extremely weak to work
What is a myasthenic crisis?
During a severe Myasthenic Crisis, patients need this machine to help them breathe?
What is a ventilator?
What treatment did MDA researchers develop that removes harmful antibodies from the bloodstream?
What is plasmapheresis?
MG is caused by a problem, a failure of communication between these two systems
What is the nervous and muscular system?
Weakness in neck muscles causes trouble doing what simple action with your head?
What is holding up your head?
Mg patients can reduce symptom flare-ups by avoiding extreme physical and emotional...
What is stress?