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ReviewArquivos de neuro-psiquiatria2025

The prevalence of myasthenia gravis is increased in inflammatory bowel disease.

Antônio Miguel Furtado Leitão, Florian P Thomas, Marcellus Henrique Loiola Ponte de Souza, Lúcia Libanez Bessa Campelo Braga, Francisco de Assis Aquino Gondim

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Antônio Miguel Furtado LeitãoUniversidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Morfologia, Fortaleza CE, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-4590-812X
Florian P ThomasHackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Hackensack NJ, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6103-4138
Marcellus Henrique Loiola Ponte de SouzaUniversidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Serviço de Gastroenterologia, Fortaleza CE, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-2376-3433
Lúcia Libanez Bessa Campelo BragaUniversidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Serviço de Gastroenterologia, Fortaleza CE, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-8258-4684
Francisco de Assis Aquino GondimUniversidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Serviço de Neurologia, Fortaleza CE, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-8957-5796

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Comorbid autoimmune disorders affect approximately 0.2% of the population. A second autoimmune disease occurs in up to 15% of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients.To evaluate the association between MG and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).We conducted a cross-sectional study involving a Brazilian cohort of IBD patients and a literature review.In 2022, we found 1 MG patient with ulcerative colitis and 3 with Crohn's disease out of 606 IBD patients (0.66% prevalence). The patient with UC and MG died in April 2024. The mean IBD onset age was 33.5 ± 2.7; patients were 45.8 ± 7.3-years-old at evaluation. Further, 2 patients were acetylcholine receptor antibody positive, 1 was anti-muscle specific kinase positive, and 1 seronegative. Also, 3 had abnormal repetitive nerve stimulation, all had normal nerve conduction studies, abnormal skin wrinkling test, and mild small fiber neuropathy. None had thymoma and/or underwent thymectomy. According to the MG Foundation's classification, one was class V, one IVb, and two IIa. The MG diagnosis was masked by immunotherapy in all. The prevalence ratio of MG in IBD patients versus the proportion of MG among all patients in our center was 8.56 (

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Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesMyasthenia GravisAdultBrazilColitis, UlcerativeCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrevalence

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PMCPMC12074827

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