MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
1943; American Medical Association; Volume: 49; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/archneurpsyc.1943.02290180128013
ISSN2330-9628
Autores Tópico(s)Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
ResumoThe recording of these 2 cases calls attention to the possibility that myasthenia gravis may have a familial tendency. Reference to some of the standard textbooks on neurology discloses a difference of opinion as to a multiple familial occurrence. "Myasthenia gravis occasionally appears in more than one member of the family." (Bing 1 ); "There is never any familial or hereditary tendency in myasthenia gravis." (Ford 2 ); "Heredity does not play any considerable role in spite of rare observations by Peter and Marina." (Curschmann 3 ); "The disease is not familial or hereditary, but it appears to have a relationship to disease of the thyroid and the thymus glands, which have a tendency to run in families." (McCarthy 4 ); "Heredo-familial tendencies are unknown save for the cases of Marinesco and Hart." (Wilson 5 ); "The occasional presence of some heredo-degenerative stigmata naturally points to a congenital predisposition." (Wechsler 6 ); "No case is on
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