A CHALLENGING DIAGNOSIS OF FLUCTUATING DYSPNEA: MYASTHENIA GRAVIS

A Challenging Diagnosis of Fluctuating Dyspnea: Myasthenia Gravis

Isolated respiratory muscles weakness is an unusual presentation of Myasthenia Gravis (MG).We present a case of 49-year-old male with undiagnosed MG who presented with fluctuating dyspnea on exertion and at rest.There was no peripheral muscle involvement, diagnostic tests and standard electromyography was normal, and the serologic tests were negati

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Description of Amblyomma monteiroae n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of the great horned owl (Strigiformes: Strigidae) in southern Brazil

In 2020, adult hard ticks (males and females) were collected from great horned owls [Bubo virginianus (Gmelin, 1788)] in the coastal region in spyderco urban southern Brazil.The engorged females were allowed to oviposit in the laboratory and hatched larvae could be obtained.Analyses of the external morphology of the adult ticks revealed that they r

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