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Respiratory failure in myasthenia gravis and negative pressure support
1Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom.
Pediatric Neurology
|November 7, 1998
Abstract:
A young female whose pyridostigmine treatment had recently been changed presented with myasthenia gravis, acute respiratory failure, and respiratory infection. She was supported with a noninvasive negative pressure cuirass device as an aid to optimizing medical therapies without the confounding factor of pharmacology-induced sedation and analgesia.