论文信息 - Double‐step repetitive stimulation in myasthenia gravis

Double‐step repetitive stimulation in myasthenia gravis

The double‐step technique of repetitive nerve stimulation was compared with repetitive nerve stimulation to a distal and a proximal muscle and with single fiber needle electromyography in 10 patients with myasthenia gravis. We conclude that the double‐step technique is slightly more sensitive than repetitive nerve stimulation to a proximal muscle but only 60% as sensitive as single fiber electromyography in demonstrating abnormal neuromuscular transmission in myasthenia gravis.

D. Sanders | J. Gilchrist

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