## Abstract Etanercept is an antagonist of tumor necrosis factor alpha that was developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis. In this report we present a patient who developed myasthenia gravis while taking etanercept and had resolution of symptoms after stopping it. This is the first report of this pot
Ocular myasthenia gravis associated with euthyroid ophthalmopathy
β Scribed by Tomohiko Kusuhara; Masashi Nakajima; Akiko Imamura
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 91 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
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