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Vocal cord paralysis as a manifestation of myasthenia gravis with anti-MuSK antibodies
Parálisis de cuerdas vocales como forma de presentación de miastenia gravis con anticuerpos anti-MuSK
P.E. Jiménez Caballero
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, J.A. Fermin Marrero, I. Trigo Bragado, I. Casado Naranjo
Sección de Neurología, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain
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She was admitted to the emergency department due to a 3-week history of dyspnoea with moderate exertion&#44; predominantly in the morning&#44; associated with dysphonia and stridor&#46; She presented no other bulbar or ocular symptoms and no limb weakness&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">General examination yielded normal results&#46; Neurological examination revealed dysphonic voice associated with stridor&#44; which worsened with repeated efforts&#46; It also revealed predominantly right-sided eyelid ptosis which also intensified with repetition&#46; No ophthalmoparesis or any other pathological signs were observed during the examination&#46; Direct laryngoscopy revealed vocal fold abduction paresis that had reduced the abduction angle by 20&#176;&#46; A Tensilon<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span> test yielded negative results&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Results from the blood test&#44; including acetylcholine receptor antibodies and calcium channel antibodies&#44; were negative&#46; The patient tested positive for anti-MuSK antibodies&#58; 9&#46;0<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>nmol&#47;L &#40;normal &#60;0&#46;05&#41;&#46; Chest radiography and CT were normal&#46; Electromyography &#40;EMG&#41; showed increased jitter in the frontalis muscle and low-frequency repetitive nerve stimulation of the orbicularis oculi showed a significant decrementing response&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Treatment with pyridostigmine at doses up to 180<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#47;day did not improve symptoms and was poorly tolerated&#44; causing diarrhoea and nausea&#46; We prescribed prednisone at a dose of 1<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#47;kg&#47;day&#44; which lessened symptoms until the patient was asymptomatic&#46; The dose was reduced to 20<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#47;day during follow-up&#44; as greater decreases can lead to stridor&#44; eyelid ptosis&#44; and diplopia&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Vocal cord paralysis can be due to multiple disorders&#44; some of which are neurological&#46; Paralysis causes an increased resistance to airflow&#44; and therefore dysphonia and stridor&#44; as a consequence of weakness of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles&#46; Although this is rare&#44; vocal cord paralysis may indicate onset of myasthenia gravis&#46; Despite the low frequency of anti-MuSK antibody myasthenia gravis&#44; several cases with a similar effect have been reported<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#44;4</span></a> because this type of myasthenia gravis mainly affects bulbar muscles&#46; In the cases described to date&#44; including ours&#44; paralysis affects abduction and not adduction&#44; and therefore the condition would preferentially affect posterior cricoarytenoid muscles&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Presence of dysphonia and stridor that intensify with fatigue should lead us to suspect bulbar myasthenia gravis&#46; Lack of response to cholinesterase inhibitors and negative results from a test for acetylcholine receptor antibodies would not rule out this possibility&#46; We have seen that these results are negative in cases of myasthenia gravis with anti-MuSK antibodies&#46; Neurophysiological studies yield data typical of neuromuscular junction disease&#44; including a decrementing response to low-frequency repetitive nerve stimulation and pathological jitter&#46; Another entity which may cause bulbar symptoms with fatigue is Eaton-Lambert syndrome&#44; but autonomic symptoms in these patients are usually pronounced &#40;arterial hypertension&#44; dry mouth&#44; sexual dysfunction&#44; etc&#46;&#41;&#46; Furthermore&#44; during neurophysiological examination&#44; high-frequency repetitive nerve stimulation shows facilitation&#44; although the phenomenon in Eaton-Lambert syndrome can be indistinguishable from that of myasthenia gravis&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In myasthenia gravis with anti-MuSK antibodies&#44; atrophy of facial and tongue muscles has been described in magnetic resonance studies&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> However&#44; this finding is normally reported when the disease is at an advanced stage and its diagnostic utility remains uncertain&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Early diagnosis of myasthenia gravis with anti-MuSK antibodies eliminates unnecessary tests and prevents delays in treatment of what may be a life-threatening condition&#59; a patient can die of respiratory failure if the vocal cords remain closed&#46;</p></span>"
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