Development of myasthenia gravis 8 years after interstitial lung disease associated with antisynthetase (anti-EJ antibody) syndrome

Clin Case Rep. 2016 Dec 20;5(1):61-65. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.747. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Patients with antisynthetase-positive interstitial lung disease (ILD) alone sometimes develop myositis during follow-up, but myasthenia gravis (MG) overlapping on antisynthetase syndrome is unusual. A 56-year-old woman with ILD and anti-EJ antibody treated for 8 years developed MG. Physicians should consider myositis and MG when patients develop muscle symptoms during follow-up.

Keywords: Anti‐EJ antibody; antisynthetase syndrome; dermatomyositis; myasthenia gravis; polymyositis.

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