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Clinical and immunological differences between early and late-onset myasthenia gravis in Japan.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Jan 2011
Suzuki Shigeaki, Utsugisawa Kimiaki, Nagane Yuriko, Satoh Takashi, Kuwana Masataka, Suzuki Norihiro
Abstract excerpt
Immunological characteristics of myasthenia gravis (MG) with late-onset have not been fully elucidated. We examined several autoantibodies and HLA-DRB1 genotyping in 260 Japanese MG patients. Sixty-two MG patients had thymoma. The others were divided into early-onset and late-onset groups separated by an age of 50 years. The ocular form was more frequent in late-onset compared to early-onset group. Seropositivity...
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