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Myasthenia gravis unmasked by antipsychotic medication
Author(s) -
Wilson Carol Lee,
Ferguson John
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.264
Subject(s) - myasthenia gravis , antipsychotic , medicine , pediatrics , psychiatry , extrapyramidal symptoms , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology
Abstract Several medications, including some antipsychotics, have been shown to worsen myasthenia gravis symptoms. Here, Drs Wilson and Ferguson report the case of a patient with bipolar affective disorder, whose undiagnosed myasthenia gravis was unmasked by antipsychotic medication used to treat a manic relapse and whose symptoms were first attributed to antipsychotic‐associated extrapyramidal sideeffects.