Pregnancy-associated respiratory failure in muscle specific kinase congenital myasthenic syndrome

Muscle Nerve. 2019 Apr;59(4):E24-E26. doi: 10.1002/mus.26410. Epub 2019 Jan 22.

Authors

Vaibhav Wadwekar¹, Rajit Remanan Pillai¹, S Sesh¹, Sruthi S Nair¹, Muralidharan Nair¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India.

PMID: 30635923
DOI: 10.1002/mus.26410

No abstract available

Keywords: MuSK; congenital myasthenic syndrome; mortality; pregnancy; respiratory; tongue wasting.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Consanguinity
Deglutition Disorders / etiology
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Myasthenic Syndromes, Congenital / genetics
Myasthenic Syndromes, Congenital / pathology*
Pregnancy
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / genetics
Receptors, Cholinergic / genetics
Respiration, Artificial
Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
Respiratory Insufficiency / pathology*
Tongue / pathology
Young Adult

Substances

Receptors, Cholinergic
MUSK protein, human
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases