Dear Dr. Donohue: My aunt died about 20 years ago. I have been told the cause of her death was myasthenia gravis. Will you please answer some questions about it? What are the early symptoms? How is it ...

It’s a lifelong autoimmune neuromuscular disease. It causes certain muscles to weaken easily after you use them. Muscle fatigue typically varies throughout the day (sometimes hour by hour) and gets ...

Jalees Rehman receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) does not have stages but classes. These classes describe the muscles the condition affects and the severity of muscle weakness, which can influence the treatments a doctor may ...

Ocular myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition affecting the muscles surrounding and involving the eyes. Symptoms can include double vision, droopy eyelids, and more. Ocular myasthenia gravis ...

Shruti Pushkarna was born with a weak eye muscle, which impacted her eyesight and resulted in high myopia. Then, when Shruti was about 3 or 4 years old, her mother was diagnosed with a form of ...